| contrapuntal | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint | - |
| contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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| contrary | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false | - |
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| (adjective) very opposed in nature or character or purpose | - |
| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: obstinate, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: adverse |
| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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| (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
| (adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
| contrasty | (adjective) having sharp differences between black and white | - |
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| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| controllable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: governable |
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| controlled | (adjective) restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds | - |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| contumacious | (adjective) wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient | - |
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| contumelious | (adjective) arrogantly insolent | - |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
| conventional | (adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginative and conformist | - |
| (adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | - |
| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: ceremonious |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: formal, schematic |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: established |
| (adjective) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | - |
| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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| conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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| coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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| corinthian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture | - |
| corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| couchant | (adjective) lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward | - |
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| countable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: denumerable, enumerable, numerable |
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| counter | (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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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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| counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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| counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| countless | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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| countryfied | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, rustic |
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| countrywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: nationwide |
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| countywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a county | - |
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| covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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| dainty | (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: exquisite |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) especially pleasing to the taste | - |
| daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| dauntless | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
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| decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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| (adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
| (adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
| (adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
| decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| decumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, recumbent |
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| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| deferent | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferential, regardful |
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| deferential | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, regardful |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| defiant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: noncompliant |
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| deficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: insufficient |
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| (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: lacking, wanting |
| (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: inferior, substandard |
| dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| delinquent | (adjective) past due; not paid at the scheduled time | Synonyms: overdue |
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| (adjective) guilty of a misdeed | - |
| (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: derelict, neglectful, remiss |
| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| demented | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| demulcent | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, salving, softening |
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| dental | (adjective) of or relating to the teeth | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to dentistry | - |
| dentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections in the margin | - |
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| dented | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: bent, crumpled |
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| denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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| departmental | (adjective) of or relating to a department | - |
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| dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
| dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
| (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
| depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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| detrimental | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, prejudicial, prejudicious |
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