| chantlike | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: intoned, singsong |
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| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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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 |
| chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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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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| circumstantial | (adjective) fully detailed and specific about particulars | - |
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| cismontane | (adjective) on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains | - |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| clamant | (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: crying, exigent, insistent, instant |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamorous, strident, vociferous |
| clement | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) physically mild | - |
| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| cogent | (adjective) powerfully persuasive | Synonyms: telling, weighty |
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| cognisant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognizant |
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| cognizant | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: aware, cognisant |
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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 |
| 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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| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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| comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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| compartmental | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalised, compartmentalized |
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| compartmentalised | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalized |
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| compartmentalized | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalised |
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| compartmented | (adjective) divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units | - |
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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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| complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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| complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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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 | - |
| compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| 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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| concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| 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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| 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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| confrontational | (adjective) of or relating to confrontation | - |
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| congruent | (adjective) coinciding when superimposed | - |
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| (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruous |
| conjoint | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoined |
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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 |
| 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 |
| consonant | (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable |
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| (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
| consonantal | (adjective) being or marked by or containing or functioning as a consonant | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a consonant | - |
| constant | (adjective) steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection | - |
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| (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, invariant, unvarying |
| constituent | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constitutional, constitutive, organic |
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| consubstantial | (adjective) regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity) | - |
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| contagious | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (adjective) easily diffused or spread as from one person to another | - |
| 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 |
| contaminating | (adjective) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: dirty |
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| (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: corrupting |
| contaminative | (adjective) making impure by contact or mixing | - |
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| contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
| contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
| contemptible | (adjective) deserving of contempt or scorn | - |
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| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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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 | - |
| conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| contestable | (adjective) capable of being contested | - |
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| contested | (adjective) disputed or made the object of contention or competition | - |
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| contextual | (adjective) relating to or determined by or in context | - |
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| contiguous | (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: immediate |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: conterminous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| 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 | - |
| continual | (adjective) recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series | - |
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| (adjective) having no interruptions | - |
| continuant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| continued | (adjective) without stop or interruption | - |
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| continuing | (adjective) remaining in force or being carried on without letup | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: chronic |
| continuous | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: uninterrupted |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity | - |
| contorted | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: writhed, writhen |
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| contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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| contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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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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| contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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| contralto | (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: alto |
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