| borderline | (adjective) of questionable or minimal quality | Synonyms: marginal |
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| bothered | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: daunted, fazed |
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| bothersome | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| bouldered | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldery, rocky, stony |
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| bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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| bounderish | (adjective) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | Synonyms: ill-bred, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish |
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| bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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| brachypterous | (adjective) (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings | Synonyms: short-winged |
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| briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| brotherlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherly, fraternal |
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| brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
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| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| calciferous | (adjective) bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite | - |
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| calendered | (adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: glossy |
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| caller | (adjective) providing coolness | - |
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| (adjective) fresh | - |
| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| center | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: centre |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: centre, halfway, middle, midway |
| centered | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centred |
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| centromeric | (adjective) pertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis | - |
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| ceramic | (adjective) of or relating to or made from a ceramic | - |
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| cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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| cereal | (adjective) made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it | - |
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| cerebellar | (adjective) relating to or associated with the cerebellum | - |
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| cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| ceremonial | (adjective) marked by pomp or ceremony or formality | - |
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| ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
| ceric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4 | - |
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| cerise | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| cernuous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
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| cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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| certain | (adjective) established beyond doubt or question; definitely known | - |
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| (adjective) having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) certain to occur; destined or inevitable | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) established irrevocably | Synonyms: sealed |
| (adjective) exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance | Synonyms: sure |
| (adjective) definite but not specified or identified | - |
| (adjective) reliable in operation or effect | Synonyms: sure |
| certifiable | (adjective) capable of being guaranteed or certified | - |
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| (adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certified |
| certificated | (adjective) furnished with or authorized by a certificate: | - |
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| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| certified | (adjective) endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements | - |
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| (adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certifiable |
| (adjective) holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill | Synonyms: qualified |
| cerulean | (adjective) of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky | Synonyms: azure, bright blue, sky-blue |
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| ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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| chambered | (adjective) having compartmental chambers | - |
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| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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| chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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| checkered | (adjective) marked by changeable fortune | - |
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| (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, chequered |
| cheerful | (adjective) being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits | - |
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| (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat |
| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| cheerless | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: depressing, uncheerful |
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| cheery | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: gay, sunny |
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| cheliceral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: chelicerate |
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| chelicerate | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: cheliceral |
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| chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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| cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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| chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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| chemotherapeutical | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutic |
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| chequered | (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, checkered |
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| cherished | (adjective) characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for | Synonyms: precious, treasured, wanted |
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| cherry | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| cherty | (adjective) resembling or containing chert | - |
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| cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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| chimeral | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeric, chimerical |
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| chimeric | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimerical |
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| chimerical | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimeric |
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| (adjective) produced by a wildly fanciful imagination | - |
| chipper | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, jaunty |
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| choleraic | (adjective) relating to or resulting from or resembling cholera | - |
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| choleric | (adjective) characterized by anger | Synonyms: irascible |
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| (adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
| (adjective) easily moved to anger | - |
| cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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| churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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| churrigueresque | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresco |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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| circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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| clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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| clerical | (adjective) of or relating to the clergy | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to clerks | - |
| (adjective) appropriate for or engaged in office work | - |
| clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
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| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
| cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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| (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
| clustered | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative |
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| (adjective) growing close together but not in dense mats | - |
| cluttered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: littered |
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| coercive | (adjective) serving or intended to coerce | - |
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| coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
| collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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| (adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
| (adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| commercial | (adjective) connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to commercialism | - |
| (adjective) of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior | Synonyms: commercial-grade |
| (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking |
| commercialised | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialized |
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| commercialized | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialised |
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| commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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| concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
| (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |