| 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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| 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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| conversational | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: colloquial |
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| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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| (adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
| (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
| convex | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: bulging |
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| conveyable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| convincible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: persuadable, persuasible, suasible |
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| convincing | (adjective) causing one to believe the truth of something | - |
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| convivial | (adjective) occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company | Synonyms: good-time |
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| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| convoluted | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convolute |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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| (adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| correctional | (adjective) concerned with or providing correction | - |
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| correlational | (adjective) relating to or employing correlation | - |
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| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| cosmogonic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogonical | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cottony | (adjective) resembling cotton; as soft as cotton | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| cresson | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, watercress |
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| crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
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| (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
| (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
| criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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| cryonic | (adjective) of or relating to cryonics | - |
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| curmudgeonly | (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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| cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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| cushiony | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, padded |
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| cyclonal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonic, cyclonical |
| cyclonic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonical |
| cyclonical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center | Synonyms: cyclonal, cyclonic |
| cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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| daylong | (adjective) lasting through an entire day | - |
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| debonair | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonaire, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonaire, debonnaire, suave |
| debonaire | (adjective) having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air | Synonyms: chipper, debonair, jaunty |
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| (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonnaire, suave |
| deboned | (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: boned |
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| debonnaire | (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, suave |
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| decompositional | (adjective) causing organic decay | - |
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| deconsecrated | (adjective) divested of consecration | - |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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| deformational | (adjective) relating to or causing change in either shape or size of a material body or geometric figure | - |
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| delusional | (adjective) suffering from or characterized by delusions | - |
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| demoniac | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniacal, possessed |
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| demoniacal | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, possessed |
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| demonic | (adjective) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell | Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy |
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| demonstrable | (adjective) necessarily or demonstrably true | Synonyms: incontrovertible |
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| (adjective) capable of being demonstrated or proved | Synonyms: provable |
| demonstrated | (adjective) having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt | - |
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| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| denominational | (adjective) adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a particular religious denomination | - |
| (adjective) relating to the face value of a banknote, coin, or stamp | - |
| derivational | (adjective) characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base | - |
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| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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| devotional | (adjective) relating to worship | - |
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| diachronic | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: historical |
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| diagonal | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping |
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| (adjective) connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face | - |
| diagonalizable | (adjective) capable of being transformed into a diagonal matrix | - |
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| diatonic | (adjective) based on the standard major or minor scales consisting of 5 tones and 2 semitones without modulation by accidentals | - |
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| (adjective) based on or using the five tones and two semitones of the major or minor scales of western music | - |
| dicotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed | - |
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| dimensional | (adjective) of or relating to dimensions | - |
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| (adjective) having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person | - |
| dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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