| contestable | (adjective) capable of being contested | - |
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| contested | (adjective) disputed or made the object of contention or competition | - |
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| contextual | (adjective) relating to or determined by or in context | - |
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| contorted | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: writhed, writhen |
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| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| convoluted | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convolute |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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| (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
| (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |
| copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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| cordate | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordiform, heart-shaped |
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| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| corporate | (adjective) of or belonging to a corporation | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate |
| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: collective |
| (adjective) organized and maintained as a legal corporation | Synonyms: incorporated |
| corrected | (adjective) having something undesirable neutralized | - |
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| correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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| correlated | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlative |
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| corrugated | (adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges | - |
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| corrupted | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: debased, vitiated |
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| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupt |
| costate | (adjective) having ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: ribbed |
| coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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| counter | (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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| counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| courteous | (adjective) characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: gracious, nice |
| coveted | (adjective) much wanted | Synonyms: in demand, sought-after, sought after |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| 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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| 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 | - |
| crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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| criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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| criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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| crocketed | (adjective) (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | - |
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| cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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| crusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crustlike, crusty, encrusted |
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| ctenoid | (adjective) resembling a comb; having projections like the teeth of a comb | Synonyms: comb-like |
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| cultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite |
| (adjective) no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use | - |
| cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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| cupulate | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupular |
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| cuspate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| cuspidated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate |
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| cute | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: precious |
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| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cunning |
| cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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| cyanophyte | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanobacterial |
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| cytoarchitectonic | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectural |
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| cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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| dateable | (adjective) that can be given a date | Synonyms: datable |
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| dated | (adjective) marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past | - |
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| dateless | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: endless, sempiternal |
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| (adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: timeless |
| (adjective) not bearing a date | Synonyms: undated |
| (adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date | - |
| daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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| daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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| debilitated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, enervated |
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| decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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| decollete | (adjective) (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline | Synonyms: low-cut, low-necked |
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| deconsecrated | (adjective) divested of consecration | - |
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| decorated | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: adorned |
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| decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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| dedicated | (adjective) devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose | - |
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| (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrate, consecrated |
| dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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| defeated | (adjective) beaten or overcome; not victorious | - |
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| (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted |
| definite | (adjective) precise; explicit and clearly defined | - |
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| (adjective) known for certain | - |
| deflated | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen |
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| defoliate | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliated |
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| defoliated | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliate |
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| degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| dehydrated | (adjective) preserved by removing natural moisture | Synonyms: desiccated, dried |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive loss of water from the body | - |
| dejected | (adjective) affected or marked by low spirits | - |
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| deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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| deliberate | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, measured |
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| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, measured |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: intentional, knowing |
| delicate | (adjective) exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragile, frail |
| (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: ticklish, touchy |
| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: finespun |
| (adjective) of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely | - |
| (adjective) marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique | - |
| (adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: soft |
| delighted | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) greatly pleased | - |
| delimited | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: bounded |
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| delineate | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineated, represented |
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| delineated | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineate, represented |
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| demented | (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
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| demonstrated | (adjective) having been demonstrated or verified beyond doubt | - |
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| dentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections in the margin | - |
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| dented | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: bent, crumpled |
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| denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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| denudate | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denuded |
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| departed | (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, gone |
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| (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, foregone, gone |
| depicted | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: pictured, portrayed |
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