| conditional | (adjective) imposing or depending on or containing a condition | - |
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| (adjective) qualified by reservations | - |
| conditioned | (adjective) established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: learned |
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| (adjective) physically fit | Synonyms: in condition |
| confiding | (adjective) willing to entrust personal matters | - |
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| confounding | (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: contradictory |
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| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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| (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
| (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |
| coordinating | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinative |
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| coordinative | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinating |
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| cordial | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, amiable, genial |
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| (adjective) politely warm and friendly | - |
| (adjective) sincerely or intensely felt | - |
| cordiform | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordate, heart-shaped |
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| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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| (adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
| (adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
| creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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| dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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| deciding | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: determinant, determinative, determining |
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| dedicated | (adjective) devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, consecrated |
| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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| degrading | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: debasing |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: corrupting |
| demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| diabatic | (adjective) involving a transfer of heat | - |
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| diabetic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing diabetes | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from diabetes | - |
| diabolic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolical, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diabolical | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: demonic, diabolic, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| (adjective) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil | Synonyms: devilish, diabolic, mephistophelean, mephistophelian |
| diachronic | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: historical |
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| diacritic | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritical |
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| diacritical | (adjective) capable of distinguishing | Synonyms: diacritic |
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| diadromous | (adjective) (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters | - |
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| diagnosable | (adjective) capable of being diagnosed | - |
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| diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
| diagonal | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| (adjective) connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face | - |
| diagonalizable | (adjective) capable of being transformed into a diagonal matrix | - |
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| diagrammatic | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatical |
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| diagrammatical | (adjective) shown or represented by diagrams | Synonyms: diagrammatic |
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| dialectal | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of a dialect | - |
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| dialectic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectical |
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| dialectical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing dialectic | Synonyms: dialectic |
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| diamagnetic | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting diamagnetism; slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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| diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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| diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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| diametric | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametrical |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametrical, opposite, polar |
| diametrical | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametric |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, opposite, polar |
| dianoetic | (adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: discursive |
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| diaphanous | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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| diaphoretic | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: sudorific |
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| diaphyseal | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphysial |
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| diaphysial | (adjective) relating to the diaphysis of a bone | Synonyms: diaphyseal |
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| diarrheal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrheic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhetic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhoeal | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeic, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhoeic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoetic |
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| diarrhoetic | (adjective) of or relating to diarrhea | Synonyms: diarrheal, diarrheic, diarrhetic, diarrhoeal, diarrhoeic |
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| diastolic | (adjective) of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole | - |
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| diatomic | (adjective) of or relating to a molecule made up of two atoms | - |
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| diatonic | (adjective) based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals | - |
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| (adjective) based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music | - |
| diazo | (adjective) relating to or containing diazonium | - |
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| dicarboxylic | (adjective) containing two carboxyls per molecule | - |
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| dicey | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, chancy, dodgy |
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| dichotomous | (adjective) divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications | - |
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| dichromatic | (adjective) of or relating to dichromatism | - |
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| (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicolour, bicoloured |
| dickey | (adjective) (British informal) faulty | Synonyms: dicky |
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| dicky | (adjective) (British informal) faulty | Synonyms: dickey |
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| diclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in separate flowers | - |
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| dicotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed | - |
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| dictated | (adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: determined, set |
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| dictatorial | (adjective) of or characteristic of a dictator | - |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing |
| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| dictyopteran | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the order Dictyoptera | - |
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| didactic | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactical |
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| didactical | (adjective) instructive (especially excessively) | Synonyms: didactic |
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| diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| dietetic | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetical |
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| dietetical | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietary, dietetic |
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| different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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| (adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
| (adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
| (adjective) distinct or separate | - |
| differentiable | (adjective) possessing a differential coefficient or derivative | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being perceived as different | - |
| differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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| (adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
| differentiated | (adjective) made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment | - |
| difficult | (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: hard |
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| (adjective) hard to control | Synonyms: unmanageable |
| diffident | (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: shy, timid, unsure |
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| (adjective) showing modest reserve | - |
| diffuse | (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffused, soft |
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| (adjective) spread out; not concentrated in one place | - |
| (adjective) lacking conciseness | - |
| diffused | (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffuse, soft |
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| (adjective) (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material | - |
| diffusing | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusive, dispersive, disseminative |
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| diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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| digestible | (adjective) capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal | - |
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| digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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| dighted | (adjective) dressed or adorned (as for battle) | - |
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| digital | (adjective) of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or performed with the fingers | - |
| (adjective) displaying numbers rather than scale positions | - |
| digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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| digitigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do) | - |
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| dignified | (adjective) having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance | - |
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| (adjective) having or showing self-esteem | Synonyms: self-respectful, self-respecting |
| dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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| digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
| dilapidated | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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