correct | (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: right |
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(adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: right |
(adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: right |
(adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: right |
correctable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: amendable |
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(adjective) capable of being returned to the original condition; not necessarily permanent | - |
corrected | (adjective) having something undesirable neutralized | - |
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correctional | (adjective) concerned with or providing correction | - |
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corrective | (adjective) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition | - |
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(adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary |
correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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correlated | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlative |
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correlational | (adjective) relating to or employing correlation | - |
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correlative | (adjective) expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation | - |
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(adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlated |
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 | - |
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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counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
covered | (adjective) overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form | - |
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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 |
creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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(adjective) thick like cream | - |
creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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(adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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(adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
(adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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(adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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(adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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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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crested | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: plumed |
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(adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: topknotted, tufted |
(adjective) bearing an heraldic device | - |
crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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cretinous | (adjective) afflicted with cretinism | - |
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crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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cultured | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, genteel, polite |
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cured | (adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) | Synonyms: vulcanised, vulcanized |
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(adjective) (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening | - |
(adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: healed, recovered |
(adjective) (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process | Synonyms: aged |
(adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: corned |
(adjective) (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry | - |
current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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daredevil | (adjective) presumptuously daring | Synonyms: temerarious |
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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 |
debonnaire | (adjective) having a sophisticated charm | Synonyms: debonair, debonaire, suave |
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deciphered | (adjective) converted from cryptic to intelligible language | - |
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declared | (adjective) made known or openly avowed | - |
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(adjective) declared as fact; explicitly stated | Synonyms: stated |
decreased | (adjective) made less in size or amount or degree | Synonyms: reduced |
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decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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(adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
decreed | (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, ordained, prescribed |
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decrepit | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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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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degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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(adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
demure | (adjective) affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way | Synonyms: coy, overmodest |
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denatured | (adjective) changed in nature or natural quality | Synonyms: denaturised, denaturized |
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deprecating | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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deprecative | (adjective) given to expressing disapproval | - |
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(adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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(adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |
depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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(adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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depressed | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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(adjective) lower than previously | Synonyms: down |
(adjective) flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces | - |
depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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derelict | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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(adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss |
(adjective) forsaken by owner or inhabitants | Synonyms: abandoned, deserted |
(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
desired | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: craved |
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deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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diaphoretic | (adjective) inducing perspiration | Synonyms: sudorific |
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different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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(adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
(adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
(adjective) distinct or separate | - |
differentiable | (adjective) possessing a differential coefficient or derivative | - |
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(adjective) capable of being perceived as different | - |
differential | (adjective) relating to or showing a difference | - |
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(adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives | - |
differentiated | (adjective) made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different | - |
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(adjective) exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment | - |
digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
dire | (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: desperate |
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(adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
direct | (adjective) direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short | - |
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(adjective) (of a current) flowing in one direction only | - |
(adjective) straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action | - |
(adjective) similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity | - |
(adjective) in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child | Synonyms: lineal |
(adjective) moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth | - |
(adjective) lacking compromising or mitigating elements | Synonyms: exact |
(adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: verbatim |
(adjective) having no intervening persons, agents, conditions | Synonyms: unmediated |
(adjective) being an immediate result or consequence | - |
directed | (adjective) manageable by a supervising agent | - |
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(adjective) (often used in combination) having a specified direction | - |
directing | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding |
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directional | (adjective) relating to or indicating directions in space | - |
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(adjective) relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal | - |
(adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directive, guiding |
directionless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
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directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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direful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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disagreeable | (adjective) not to your liking | - |
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(adjective) unpleasant to interact with | - |
(adjective) not agreeing with your tastes or expectations | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
discovered | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: ascertained, observed |
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discreditable | (adjective) tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy | - |
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discredited | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed |
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(adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: damaged |
discreet | (adjective) marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint | - |
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(adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: circumspect |
(adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discerning |
discrepant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, dissonant |
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(adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: inconsistent |
(adjective) not compatible with other facts | Synonyms: incompatible |
discrete | (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: distinct |
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discretional | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretionary |
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discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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(adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
disfigured | (adjective) having the appearance spoiled | - |
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dishonored | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, disgraced, shamed |
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disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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