| bosky | (adjective) covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets | Synonyms: brushy |
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| boxlike | (adjective) resembling a box in rectangularity | Synonyms: box-shaped, boxy |
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| boylike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, schoolboyish |
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| brackish | (adjective) slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water) | Synonyms: briny |
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| (adjective) distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture | - |
| brainsick | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| braky | (adjective) abounding with bracken | - |
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| (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth | Synonyms: brambly |
| brasslike | (adjective) resembling the sound of a brass instrument | Synonyms: brassy |
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| breakable | (adjective) capable of being broken or damaged | - |
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| breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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| breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| brickle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickly, brittle |
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| brickly | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brittle |
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| brisk | (adjective) very active | - |
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| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: bracing, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
| bristlelike | (adjective) resembling a bristle | - |
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| broke | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| broken | (adjective) physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split | - |
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| (adjective) not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly | - |
| (adjective) (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded | Synonyms: unkept |
| (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: busted |
| (adjective) destroyed financially | Synonyms: impoverished, wiped out |
| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: confused, disordered, upset |
| (adjective) discontinuous | - |
| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: crushed, humbled, humiliated, low |
| (adjective) weakened and infirm | - |
| (adjective) imperfectly spoken or written | - |
| (adjective) lacking a part or parts | - |
| (adjective) topographically very uneven | Synonyms: rugged |
| (adjective) tamed or trained to obey | Synonyms: broken in |
| brokenhearted | (adjective) full of sorrow | Synonyms: heartbroken, heartsick |
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| brotherlike | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherly, fraternal |
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| brushlike | (adjective) resembling a brush | - |
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| brusk | (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusque, curt, short |
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| buckram | (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: starchy, stiff |
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| buckshee | (adjective) free of charge | - |
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| bulblike | (adjective) shaped like a bulb | Synonyms: bulb-shaped, bulbous |
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| bulky | (adjective) of large size for its weight | - |
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| bullnecked | (adjective) having a thick short powerful neck | - |
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| bullocky | (adjective) resembling a bullock in strength and power | - |
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| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| burked | (adjective) suppressed quietly or indirectly | - |
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| burrlike | (adjective) resembling a burr; especially in being prickly | - |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| businesslike | (adjective) exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business | - |
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| (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: earnest |
| buttonlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttony |
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| cackly | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: squawky |
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| 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 |
| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| casebook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: textbook |
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| cassocked | (adjective) dressed in a cassock | - |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| caulked | (adjective) having cracks and crevices stopped up with a filler | - |
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| chafflike | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chaffy |
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| chainlike | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| chalky | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: calcareous |
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| (adjective) of something having the color of chalk | - |
| chantlike | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: intoned, singsong |
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| cheapjack | (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: shoddy, tawdry |
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| checked | (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checkered, chequered |
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| checkered | (adjective) marked by changeable fortune | - |
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| (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, chequered |
| cheeky | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, nervy |
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| cheeselike | (adjective) having the consistency of cheese | - |
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| chicken | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| chickenhearted | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| childlike | (adjective) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | Synonyms: dewy-eyed, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed |
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| (adjective) befitting a young child | Synonyms: childly |
| chinked | (adjective) having narrow opening filled | Synonyms: stopped-up |
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| chockablock | (adjective) packed full to capacity | Synonyms: chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full |
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| chockful | (adjective) packed full to capacity | Synonyms: chock-full, chockablock, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full |
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| choked | (adjective) stopped up; clogged up | Synonyms: clogged |
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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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| choky | (adjective) so tight as to tend to choke | - |
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| christlike | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christly |
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| chunky | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy |
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| (adjective) like or containing small sticky lumps | Synonyms: lumpy |
| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clawlike | (adjective) resembling a claw | - |
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| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| cloaked | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped |
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| (adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading | Synonyms: disguised, masked |
| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| cloudlike | (adjective) resembling a cloud | Synonyms: nebular |
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| clownlike | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: buffoonish, clownish, zany |
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| clunky | (adjective) making a clunking sound | - |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
| cockamamie | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamy |
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| cockamamy | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamie |
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| cockeyed | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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| (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| cockney | (adjective) characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect | - |
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| cocksure | (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: overconfident, positive |
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| cocky | (adjective) overly self-confident or self-assertive | - |
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| colicky | (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulent, gassy |
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| columnlike | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columniform |
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| conelike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a cone | Synonyms: cone-shaped, conic, conical |
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| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| cooked | (adjective) having been prepared for eating by the application of heat | - |
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| corked | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corky |
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| corking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| corky | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corked |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
| (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
| crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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| crank | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy |
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| cranky | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, tender, tippy |
| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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| crocked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| crocketed | (adjective) (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | - |
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| crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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