| centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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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 |
| ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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| cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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| chagrined | (adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, embarrassed |
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| chained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: enchained, in chains |
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| chainlike | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
| (adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
| changing | (adjective) marked by continuous change or effective action | Synonyms: ever-changing |
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| 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 |
| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| cheeseparing | (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: close, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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| chilblained | (adjective) having chilblains | - |
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| childbearing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for childbirth | - |
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| chilling | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: scary, shivery, shuddery |
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| chinchy | (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chintzy |
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| chinked | (adjective) having narrow opening filled | Synonyms: stopped-up |
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| chinless | (adjective) having a receding chin | - |
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| chintzy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chinchy |
| chitinous | (adjective) of or resembling chitin | - |
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| choking | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: smothering, suffocating, suffocative |
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| cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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| chromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) readily colored by stains | - |
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| churchgoing | (adjective) actively practicing a religion | - |
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| churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
| cinematic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the cinema | - |
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| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| cinnabar | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, vermilion, vermillion |
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| circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| circulating | (adjective) passing from one to another | - |
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| cisalpine | (adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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| clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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| clanging | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clangorous |
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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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| clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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| cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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| (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
| clinched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clenched |
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| clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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| clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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| (adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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| closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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| cloying | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly |
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| coalescing | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescent |
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| coaxing | (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: ingratiatory |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| coincidental | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| coinciding | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| collinear | (adjective) lying on the same line | - |
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| combinable | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinational, combinatory |
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| combinational | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinatory |
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| combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
| combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
| combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
| (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
| combined | (adjective) made or joined or united into one | - |
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| comforting | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: consolatory, consoling |
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| (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, satisfying |
| coming | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| commanding | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: dominating, overlooking |
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| commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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| comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| complaining | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaintive |
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| complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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| completing | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, complementary |
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| compromising | (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: conciliatory, flexible |
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| (adjective) vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion | - |
| concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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| concluding | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: final, last, terminal |
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| concurring | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concordant |
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| condemning | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemnatory |
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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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| confiding | (adjective) willing to entrust personal matters | - |
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| confined | (adjective) not free to move about | - |
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| (adjective) not invading healthy tissue | - |
| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: captive, imprisoned, jailed |
| confining | (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: close |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
| confirming | (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| conflicting | (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, contradictory, self-contradictory |
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| (adjective) on bad terms | - |
| conforming | (adjective) adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion) | Synonyms: conformist |
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| confounding | (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: contradictory |
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| confusing | (adjective) causing confusion or disorientation | - |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: perplexing, puzzling |
| conjoined | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoint |
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| conjoint | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoined |
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| conniving | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: collusive |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, scheming, shrewd |
| consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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| consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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| consenting | (adjective) having given consent | - |
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| consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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| constrained | (adjective) lacking spontaneity; not natural | Synonyms: forced, strained |
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| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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| consuming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: overwhelming |
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| contained | (adjective) gotten under control | - |
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| contaminated | (adjective) corrupted by contact or association | - |
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| (adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: polluted |