crustal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the crust of the earth or moon | - |
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crusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crustlike, crusty, encrusted |
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crustlike | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crusty, encrusted |
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crustose | (adjective) (of lichens) having a thin crusty thallus that adheres closely to the surface on which it is growing | - |
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crusty | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crustlike, encrusted |
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(adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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 |
cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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curst | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: cursed |
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custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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custom | (adjective) made according to the specifications of an individual | Synonyms: custom-made |
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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 |
cystic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a cyst | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a normal cyst (as the gallbladder or urinary bladder) | - |
cytoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to a cytoplast | - |
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czarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czaristic, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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czaristic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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dastard | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastardly |
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dastardly | (adjective) despicably cowardly | Synonyms: dastard |
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deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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deist | (adjective) of or relating to deism | Synonyms: deistic |
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deistic | (adjective) of or relating to deism | Synonyms: deist |
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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 |
destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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(adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
destroyable | (adjective) capable of being destroyed | - |
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destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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(adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
destructible | (adjective) easily destroyed | - |
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destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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detestable | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: abominable, execrable, odious |
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(adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
detested | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: despised, hated, scorned |
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devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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(adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
(adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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(adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
diastolic | (adjective) of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole | - |
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diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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diestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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digestible | (adjective) capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal | - |
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digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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dioestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrual |
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dioestrual | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrous |
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disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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disgusted | (adjective) having a strong distaste from surfeit | Synonyms: fed up, sick, sick of, tired of |
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disgustful | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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disgusting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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dishonest | (adjective) deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive | Synonyms: dishonorable |
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(adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, purchasable, venal |
disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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dislogistic | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dyslogistic, pejorative |
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distaff | (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: female |
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distal | (adjective) situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone | - |
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(adjective) directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
distant | (adjective) separated in space or coming from or going to a distance | - |
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(adjective) far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship | Synonyms: remote |
(adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, upstage |
(adjective) located far away spatially | Synonyms: remote |
(adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: remote, removed |
distasteful | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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(adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
distended | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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distensible | (adjective) capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand | - |
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distinct | (adjective) easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined | - |
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(adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, trenchant |
(adjective) recognizable; marked | Synonyms: decided |
(adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinguishable |
(adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: discrete |
distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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(adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
distinguishable | (adjective) capable of being perceived as different or distinct | - |
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(adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinct |
distinguished | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: grand, imposing, magisterial |
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(adjective) (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation | - |
distortable | (adjective) capable of having the meaning altered or twisted | - |
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distorted | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: misrepresented, perverted, twisted |
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(adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen |
distracted | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distrait |
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distrait | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distracted |
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distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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distressed | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: dysphoric, unhappy |
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(adjective) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty | Synonyms: hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way |
(adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried |
(adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: stressed |
distressful | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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(adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
distributed | (adjective) spread out or scattered about or divided up | - |
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distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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distrustful | (adjective) having or showing distrust | - |
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disturbed | (adjective) having the place or position changed | - |
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(adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
(adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: maladjusted |
(adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried |
disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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domestic | (adjective) of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation | - |
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(adjective) of or involving the home or family | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the home | - |
(adjective) produced in a particular country | - |
(adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domesticated |
domesticated | (adjective) accustomed to home life | - |
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(adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domestic |
downcast | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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(adjective) directed downward | - |
downstage | (adjective) of the front half of a stage | - |
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downstair | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstairs |
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downstairs | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstair |
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downstream | (adjective) in the direction of a stream's current | - |
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drastic | (adjective) forceful and extreme and rigorous | - |
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dualistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of dualism | Synonyms: Manichaean |
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dumbstricken | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstruck, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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dustlike | (adjective) as fine and powdery as dust | - |
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dusty | (adjective) covered with a layer of dust | Synonyms: dust-covered |
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(adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | Synonyms: cold, moth-eaten, stale |
dynastic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a dynasty | - |
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dyslogistic | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, pejorative |
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dysphemistic | (adjective) of or the nature of dysphemism | - |
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dysplastic | (adjective) relating to or evidencing dysplasia | - |
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dystopian | (adjective) as bad as can be; characterized by human misery | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia | - |
earliest | (adjective) (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early | Synonyms: earlier |
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earnest | (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: businesslike |
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(adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: sincere, solemn |
(adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, heartfelt |
east | (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward the east | - |
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eastbound | (adjective) moving toward the east | Synonyms: eastward |
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easterly | (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: eastern |
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(adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: eastern |