| compensated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| complemental | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complementary, completing |
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| complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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| (adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| comprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, apprehended |
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| comprehendible | (adjective) capable of being comprehended or understood | Synonyms: comprehensible |
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| comprehensible | (adjective) capable of being comprehended or understood | Synonyms: comprehendible |
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| comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope | - |
| concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) intensely focused | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
| concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| condolent | (adjective) expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one | - |
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| confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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| (adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |
| confidential | (adjective) the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified | - |
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| (adjective) denoting confidence or intimacy | - |
| (adjective) entrusted with private information and the confidence of another | - |
| (adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: secret |
| confluent | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: merging |
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| congeneric | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congenerical, congenerous |
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| congenerical | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerous |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| congenial | (adjective) suitable to your needs | - |
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| (adjective) (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted | - |
| congenital | (adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: inborn, innate |
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| congruent | (adjective) coinciding when superimposed | - |
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| (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruous |
| conscienceless | (adjective) lacking a conscience | Synonyms: unconscionable |
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| conscientious | (adjective) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous |
| consensual | (adjective) existing by consent | - |
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| consentaneous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentient, unanimous |
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| consentient | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, unanimous |
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| consenting | (adjective) having given consent | - |
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| consequent | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| consequential | (adjective) having important issues or results | Synonyms: eventful |
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| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| constituent | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constitutional, constitutive, organic |
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| content | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: contented |
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| contented | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: content |
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| contentious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
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| (adjective) involving or likely to cause controversy | - |
| continent | (adjective) having control over urination and defecation | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: celibate |
| continental | (adjective) being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a continent | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War | - |
| contingent | (adjective) being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow | Synonyms: contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on |
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| (adjective) possible but not certain to occur | - |
| (adjective) uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances | - |
| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
| conventional | (adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginative and conformist | - |
| (adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | - |
| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: ceremonious |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: formal, schematic |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: established |
| (adjective) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | - |
| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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| conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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| coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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| corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| cosmogenic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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| crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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| craven | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: recreant |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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| crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| cryogenic | (adjective) of or relating to very low temperatures | - |
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| ctenoid | (adjective) resembling a comb; having projections like the teeth of a comb | Synonyms: comb-like |
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| current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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| cyanogenetic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenic |
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| cyanogenic | (adjective) capable of producing cyanide | Synonyms: cyanogenetic |
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| cytogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetical |
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| cytogenetical | (adjective) of or relating to cytogenetics | Synonyms: cytogenetic |
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| cytopathogenic | (adjective) of or relating to or causing pathological changes in cells | - |
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| damascene | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people | - |
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| (adjective) (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals | - |
| darkened | (adjective) become or made dark by lack of light | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time | - |
| darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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| deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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| (adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
| (adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
| (adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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| decumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, recumbent |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| defenceless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenseless |
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| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenseless |
| defendable | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defensible |
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| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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