| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| capacious | (adjective) large in capacity | - |
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| caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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| capitalist | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalistic |
| capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
| capricious | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: impulsive, whimsical |
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| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: freakish |
| capsular | (adjective) of or relating to a capsule | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a capsule | - |
| capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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| capsulated | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate |
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| captious | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: faultfinding |
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| carbonaceous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonic, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carbonous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carboniferous |
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| carcinomatous | (adjective) being or relating to carcinoma | - |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| careless | (adjective) marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful | - |
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| (adjective) effortless and unstudied | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: regardless |
| carious | (adjective) (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay | - |
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| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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| carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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| carposporous | (adjective) having carpospores | - |
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| carsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, airsick, seasick |
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| cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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| casebook | (adjective) according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical | Synonyms: textbook |
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| cased | (adjective) enclosed in a case | - |
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| (adjective) covered or protected with or as if with a case | Synonyms: encased, incased |
| caseous | (adjective) of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike | - |
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| cashable | (adjective) able to be converted into ready money or the equivalent | Synonyms: redeemable |
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| cashed | (adjective) for which money has been paid | - |
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| cassocked | (adjective) dressed in a cassock | - |
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| casteless | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: outcaste |
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| castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| castled | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, crenelated, embattled |
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| castrated | (adjective) deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes | Synonyms: unsexed |
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| casual | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: cursory, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| (adjective) not showing effort or strain | Synonyms: effortless |
| (adjective) occurring on a temporary or irregular basis | Synonyms: occasional |
| (adjective) marked by blithe unconcern | Synonyms: insouciant, nonchalant |
| (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: daily, everyday |
| (adjective) occurring or appearing or singled out by chance | Synonyms: chance |
| (adjective) natural and unstudied | Synonyms: free-and-easy |
| (adjective) characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility | Synonyms: fooling |
| (adjective) without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand | - |
| casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
| casuistical | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistic |
| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| cataclysmal | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmic |
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| cataclysmic | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmal |
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| catadromous | (adjective) migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn | - |
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| cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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| catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| categorised | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorized |
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| cattish | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, catty |
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| caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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| causal | (adjective) involving or constituting a cause; causing | - |
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| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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| causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
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| (adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
| caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| cautious | (adjective) showing careful forethought | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: conservative |
| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| ceaseless | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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| celestial | (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: heavenly |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: heavenly |
| (adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: ethereal, supernal |
| cellulosid | (adjective) of or containing or made from cellulose | - |
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| cementitious | (adjective) like or relevant to or having the properties of cement | - |
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| censored | (adjective) suppressed or subject to censorship | - |
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| censorial | (adjective) belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions | - |
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| censorious | (adjective) harshly critical or expressing censure | - |
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| censurable | (adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious | Synonyms: blamable, blameable, blameful, blameworthy, culpable |
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| centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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| (adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
| centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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| centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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| centrist | (adjective) supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative | Synonyms: middle-of-the-road |
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| centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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| centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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| cerebrospinal | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
| cerise | (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, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| cernuous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
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| cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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| ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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| cesarean | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarian |
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| cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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| cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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| cetaceous | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetacean |
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| chaetognathous | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathan |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| changeless | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: immutable |
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| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: constant, invariant, unvarying |
| (adjective) remaining the same for indefinitely long times | Synonyms: unalterable |
| characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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| characterless | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: nondescript |
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| charismatic | (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: magnetic |
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