| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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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 | - |
| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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| consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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| consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| coppery | (adjective) of something having the color of copper | Synonyms: copper colored |
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| copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corymbose | (adjective) resembling a corymb | - |
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| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| 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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| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| crying | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, exigent, insistent, instant |
| cryogenic | (adjective) of or relating to very low temperatures | - |
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| cryonic | (adjective) of or relating to cryonics | - |
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| cryptanalytic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptic | (adjective) having a puzzling terseness | - |
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| (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptical | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cabalistic, cryptic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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| (adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
| cryptobiotic | (adjective) of or related to the state of cryptobiosis | - |
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| cryptogamic | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamous |
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| cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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| cryptographic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptographical | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptologic, cryptological |
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| cryptologic | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptological |
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| cryptological | (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis | Synonyms: cryptanalytic, cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic |
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| crystalised | (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalized, glace |
| crystalized | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, glace |
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| crystalline | (adjective) consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals | - |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
| (adjective) distinctly or sharply outlined | - |
| crystallised | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| crystallized | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallised |
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| (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystalised |
| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| customary | (adjective) in accordance with convention or custom | - |
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| (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, habitual, wonted |
| damnatory | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damning |
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| declamatory | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| declaratory | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declarative |
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| defamatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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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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| delusory | (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| denary | (adjective) containing ten or ten parts | Synonyms: ten-fold, tenfold |
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| (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: decimal |
| denigratory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denunciatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciative |
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| depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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| deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| 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 |
| derisory | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| derogatory | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, disparaging |
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| desultory | (adjective) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another | - |
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| dextrorotary | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotatory, right-handed |
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| dextrorotatory | (adjective) rotating to the right | Synonyms: dextrorotary, right-handed |
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| dietary | (adjective) of or relating to the diet | Synonyms: dietetic, dietetical |
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| dilatory | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| 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 | - |
| discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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| (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
| (adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
| dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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| diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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| divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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| (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
| documentary | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or derived from documents | Synonyms: documental |
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| (adjective) (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event | - |
| doddery | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, gaga, senile |
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| domiciliary | (adjective) of or relating to or provided in a domicile | - |
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| dreary | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise | Synonyms: drab |
| dry | (adjective) free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet | - |
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| (adjective) not producing milk | - |
| (adjective) (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation | - |
| (adjective) opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
| (adjective) lacking moisture or volatile components | - |
| (adjective) without a mucous or watery discharge | - |
| (adjective) having a large proportion of strong liquor | - |
| (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: ironic, ironical, wry |
| (adjective) practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages | Synonyms: teetotal |
| (adjective) used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones | - |
| (adjective) not shedding tears | - |
| (adjective) lacking warmth or emotional involvement | - |
| (adjective) unproductive especially of the expected results | - |
| (adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless | Synonyms: juiceless |
| (adjective) (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish | - |
| (adjective) having no adornment or coloration | - |
| eery | (adjective) inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening | Synonyms: eerie |
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| eleemosynary | (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, philanthropic |
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| elementary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, primary |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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| (adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
| embryologic | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryonal, embryonic |
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| embryonal | (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonic |
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| embryonic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryotic |
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| (adjective) of an organism prior to birth or hatching | Synonyms: embryologic, embryonal |
| embryotic | (adjective) in an early stage of development | Synonyms: embryonic |
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| epistolary | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolatory |
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| epistolatory | (adjective) written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence | Synonyms: epistolary |
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| erythematous | (adjective) relating to or characterized by erythema | - |
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| erythroid | (adjective) relating to erythrocytes | - |
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| erythropoietic | (adjective) of or relating to the formation of red blood cells | - |
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| eucaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eukaryotic |
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| eukaryotic | (adjective) having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: eucaryotic |
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| every | (adjective) (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception | - |
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| (adjective) each and all of a series of entities or intervals as specified | - |
| everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
| (adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
| evidentiary | (adjective) pertaining to or constituting evidence | - |
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| (adjective) serving as or based on evidence | Synonyms: evidential |
| evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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| excitatory | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitative |
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| exclamatory | (adjective) sudden and strong | Synonyms: emphatic |
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| excretory | (adjective) of or relating to the process of excretion | - |
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