| catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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| categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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| categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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| categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| categorised | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorized |
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| categorized | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorised |
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| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| caudate | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) tapering gradually into a long taillike tip | - |
| caudated | (adjective) having a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: caudate |
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| celebrated | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: historied, storied |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: famed, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
| celibate | (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: continent |
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| centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| centennial | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centenary |
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| center | (adjective) of or belonging to neither the right nor the left politically or intellectually | Synonyms: centre |
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| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: centre, halfway, middle, midway |
| centered | (adjective) being or placed in the center | Synonyms: centred |
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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 |
| certificated | (adjective) furnished with or authorized by a certificate: | - |
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| chalybeate | (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron | - |
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| chanted | (adjective) sung or uttered rhythmically in a monotone | - |
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| chapleted | (adjective) provided with a chaplet | - |
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| 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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| chartered | (adjective) hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers | Synonyms: hired, leased |
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| chaste | (adjective) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse | - |
| (adjective) pure and simple in design or style | - |
| chelate | (adjective) having or resembling chelae or claws | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelated |
| chelated | (adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelate |
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| chelicerate | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: cheliceral |
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| chickenhearted | (adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied, yellow |
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| chordate | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata | - |
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| ciliate | (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliary |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliary |
| (adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliated |
| ciliated | (adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliate |
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| circinate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, annulated, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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| clathrate | (adjective) designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another | - |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
| clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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| cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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| (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
| closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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| clotted | (adjective) thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots) | Synonyms: clogged |
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| clubfooted | (adjective) having a deformed foot | Synonyms: taliped |
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| clustered | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative |
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| (adjective) growing close together but not in dense mats | - |
| cluttered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: littered |
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| coagulate | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated, curdled, grumose, grumous |
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| coagulated | (adjective) changed into a solid mass | Synonyms: solidified |
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| (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, curdled, grumose, grumous |
| coarctate | (adjective) (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case | - |
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| coated | (adjective) having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having or dressed in a coat | - |
| coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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| coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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| cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
| coldhearted | (adjective) lacking in sympathy or feeling | - |
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| collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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| (adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
| (adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
| (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
| (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
| collected | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: gathered |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| collegiate | (adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegial |
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| comate | (adjective) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts | Synonyms: comose |
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| (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comal, comose |
| comforted | (adjective) made comfortable or more comfortable in a time of distress | - |
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| commensurate | (adjective) corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| committed | (adjective) bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude | - |
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| (adjective) associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: attached |
| companionate | (adjective) like a companion | - |
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| compartmented | (adjective) divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units | - |
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| compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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| compensated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| complete | (adjective) having every necessary or normal part or component or step | - |
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| (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, concluded, ended, over, terminated |
| (adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities | Synonyms: consummate |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: accomplished |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| completed | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: accomplished, realised, realized |
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| (adjective) (of a marriage) completed by the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony | - |
| (adjective) caught | - |
| complicated | (adjective) difficult to analyze or understand | Synonyms: complex |
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| composite | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of separate interconnected parts | - |
| conceited | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) intensely focused | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
| concerted | (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
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| concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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| (adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
| confederate | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederative |
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| confiscate | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeited |
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| congested | (adjective) overfull as with blood | Synonyms: engorged |
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| conglomerate | (adjective) composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass | - |
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| conjugate | (adjective) (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets | - |
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| (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugated, coupled |
| (adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugated |
| (adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugated |
| conjugated | (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, coupled |
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| (adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugate |
| (adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugate |
| connate | (adjective) of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united | - |
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| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: cognate |
| connected | (adjective) joined or linked together | - |
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| (adjective) plugged in | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, attached |
| (adjective) wired together to an alarm system | - |
| (adjective) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer | Synonyms: machine-accessible |
| consecrate | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrated, dedicated |
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| consecrated | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicated |
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| (adjective) made or declared or believed to be holy; devoted to a deity or some religious ceremony or use | Synonyms: sacred, sanctified |
| considerate | (adjective) showing concern for the rights and feelings of others | - |
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| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| consolidated | (adjective) forming a solid mass | - |
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| (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, coalesced, fused |
| constipated | (adjective) have difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels | - |
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| constituted | (adjective) brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established | Synonyms: established |
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| constricted | (adjective) drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically | - |
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| (adjective) especially tense; especially in some dialects | - |
| consummate | (adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities | Synonyms: complete |
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| (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: masterful, masterly, virtuoso |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| consummated | (adjective) brought to completion | - |
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| contaminated | (adjective) corrupted by contact or association | - |
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| (adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: polluted |
| contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
| 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 |
| contemptible | (adjective) deserving of contempt or scorn | - |
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| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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| content | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: contented |
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| contented | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: content |
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| contentious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
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| (adjective) involving or likely to cause controversy | - |
| conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |