| cathartic | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: releasing |
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| (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: evacuant, purgative |
| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: psychotherapeutic |
| 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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| charcoal | (adjective) of a very dark grey | Synonyms: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey |
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| chargeable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: indictable |
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| (adjective) capable of being charged | - |
| charged | (adjective) of a particle or body or system; having a net amount of positive or negative electric charge | - |
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| (adjective) supplied with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: aerated |
| (adjective) fraught with great emotion | Synonyms: supercharged |
| (adjective) capable of producing violent emotion or arousing controversy | - |
| charismatic | (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: magnetic |
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| charitable | (adjective) full of love and generosity | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by charity | - |
| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| charmed | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: captivated |
| charming | (adjective) pleasing or delighting | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizard, wizardly |
| charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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| chartaceous | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: paperlike, papery |
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| chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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| chartless | (adjective) (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated | Synonyms: uncharted, unmapped |
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| chartreuse | (adjective) of something having the yellowish green color of Chartreuse liqueur | - |
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| chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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| discharged | (adjective) having lost your job | Synonyms: dismissed, fired, laid-off, pink-slipped |
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| disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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| foolhardy | (adjective) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences | Synonyms: heady, rash, reckless |
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| glossopharyngeal | (adjective) pertaining to the tongue and throat | - |
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| harassed | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harried, pestered, vexed |
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| hard | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: surd, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (adjective) resisting weight or pressure | - |
| (adjective) dispassionate | - |
| (adjective) (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum | - |
| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: difficult |
| (adjective) being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content | Synonyms: strong |
| (adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: tough |
| (adjective) given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors | Synonyms: heavy, intemperate |
| (adjective) dried out | - |
| (adjective) very strong or vigorous | Synonyms: knockout, severe |
| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
| hardback | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardbacked, hardbound, hardcover |
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| hardbacked | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbound, hardcover |
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| hardbound | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardcover |
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| hardcore | (adjective) extremely explicit | Synonyms: hard-core |
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| (adjective) intensely loyal | Synonyms: hard-core |
| hardcover | (adjective) having a hard back or cover | Synonyms: hardback, hardbacked, hardbound |
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| hardened | (adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempered, toughened, treated |
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| (adjective) protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons) | - |
| (adjective) made tough by habitual exposure | Synonyms: enured, inured |
| (adjective) converted to solid form (as concrete) | Synonyms: set |
| (adjective) used of persons; emotionally hardened | Synonyms: case-hardened, hard-boiled |
| hardfisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: closefisted, tightfisted |
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| hardheaded | (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic |
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| (adjective) unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack | Synonyms: mulish |
| hardhearted | (adjective) lacking in feeling or pity or warmth | Synonyms: heartless |
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| (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: stonyhearted, unfeeling |
| hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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| hardscrabble | (adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard | - |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| hardy | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: stalwart, stout, sturdy |
| (adjective) able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions | - |
| harebrained | (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: insane, mad |
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| harmful | (adjective) causing or capable of causing harm | - |
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| harmless | (adjective) not causing or capable of causing harm | - |
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| harmonic | (adjective) of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to harmonics | - |
| (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
| (adjective) relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body | Synonyms: sympathetic |
| harmonical | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonised, harmonized |
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| harmonious | (adjective) musically pleasing | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: proportionate, symmetrical |
| (adjective) existing together in harmony | - |
| (adjective) suitable and fitting | - |
| harmonised | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonized |
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| harmonizable | (adjective) capable of being made harmonious or consistent | - |
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| harmonized | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonised |
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| harnessed | (adjective) brought under control and put to use | - |
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| harried | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, pestered, vexed |
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| harrowing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| harsh | (adjective) of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarse |
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| (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: abrasive |
| (adjective) severe | - |
| (adjective) unkind or cruel or uncivil | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly stern | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses | - |
| inharmonic | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, dissonant |
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| inharmonious | (adjective) not in harmony | Synonyms: unharmonious |
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| (adjective) lacking in harmony of parts | - |
| katharobic | (adjective) of living being in an oxygenated environment lacking organic matter | - |
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| laryngopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| lethargic | (adjective) deficient in alertness or activity | Synonyms: unenergetic |
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| nasopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the nasopharynx | - |
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| nonharmonic | (adjective) not harmonic | - |
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| oropharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the oropharynx | - |
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| pharisaic | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
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| pharisaical | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pietistic, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
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| pharmaceutic | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutical |
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| pharmaceutical | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment | - |
| pharmacologic | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacology | Synonyms: pharmacological |
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| pharmacological | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacology | Synonyms: pharmacologic |
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| pharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the throat | - |
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| philharmonic | (adjective) composing or characteristic of an orchestral group | - |
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| (adjective) devoted to or appreciative of music | - |
| psychopharmacological | (adjective) of or relating to psychopharmacology | - |
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| rechargeable | (adjective) capable of being recharged | - |
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| saccharine | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, syrupy, treacly |
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| semihard | (adjective) somewhat hard | - |
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| shared | (adjective) have in common; held or experienced in common | - |
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| (adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided, divided up, shared out |
| sharing | (adjective) unselfishly willing to share with others | - |
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| sharp | (adjective) having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
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| (adjective) (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone | - |
| (adjective) keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point | - |
| (adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: crisp |
| (adjective) quick and forceful | - |
| (adjective) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing |
| (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, needlelike |
| (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: astute, shrewd |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous |
| (adjective) very sudden and in great amount or degree | - |
| (adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, tart |
| sharpened | (adjective) having the point made sharp | - |
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| (adjective) made sharp or sharper | - |
| supercharged | (adjective) fraught with great emotion | Synonyms: charged |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. an engine) having the power increased by fitting with a supercharger | - |
| uncharacteristic | (adjective) distinctive and not typical | - |
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| uncharged | (adjective) of a particle or body or system; having no charge | - |
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| uncharitable | (adjective) lacking love and generosity | - |
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| uncharted | (adjective) (of unknown regions) not yet surveyed or investigated | Synonyms: chartless, unmapped |
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| unchartered | (adjective) not chartered | - |
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| undischarged | (adjective) still capable of exploding or being fired | Synonyms: unexploded |
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| (adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: outstanding, owing |
| unhardened | (adjective) not brought to a proper consistency or hardness | Synonyms: untempered |
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| unharmed | (adjective) not injured or harmed | Synonyms: unhurt, unscathed, whole |
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| unharmonious | (adjective) not in harmony | Synonyms: inharmonious |
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| unshared | (adjective) not shared | - |
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| unsharpened | (adjective) not sharpened | - |
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