| compendious | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, succinct, summary |
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| conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| confusable | (adjective) so similar as to be easily identified for another thing | Synonyms: mistakable |
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| confused | (adjective) mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently | - |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, disordered, upset |
| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, scattered, unconnected |
| (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
| (adjective) having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity | Synonyms: disoriented, lost |
| confusing | (adjective) causing confusion or disorientation | - |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: perplexing, puzzling |
| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| congruous | (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruent |
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| (adjective) suitable or appropriate together | - |
| coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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| consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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| conscientious | (adjective) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous |
| conscious | (adjective) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something | - |
| (adjective) intentionally conceived | Synonyms: witting |
| consentaneous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentient, unanimous |
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| conspicuous | (adjective) obvious to the eye or mind | - |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, blazing |
| contagious | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (adjective) easily diffused or spread as from one person to another | - |
| contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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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 |
| contiguous | (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: immediate |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: conterminous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| continuous | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: uninterrupted |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity | - |
| contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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| contumacious | (adjective) wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient | - |
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| contumelious | (adjective) arrogantly insolent | - |
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| copious | (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, plenteous, plentiful, rich |
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| (adjective) large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) | Synonyms: voluminous |
| coriaceous | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: leathered, leatherlike, leathery |
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| cormous | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormose |
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| corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
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| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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| courageous | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: brave |
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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 |
| cousinly | (adjective) like or befitting a cousin | - |
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| covetous | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: envious, jealous |
| crapulous | (adjective) given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulent |
| credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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| (adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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| cretinous | (adjective) afflicted with cretinism | - |
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| cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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| crushed | (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, humbled, humiliated, low |
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| (adjective) treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance | - |
| crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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| crustacean | (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustaceous |
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| crustaceous | (adjective) being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustacean |
| 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 |
| cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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| cucurbitaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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| cumulous | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulus |
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| (adjective) thrown together in a pile | - |
| cumulus | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulous |
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| cuprous | (adjective) of or containing divalent copper | Synonyms: cupric |
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| curious | (adjective) eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) | - |
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| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| curvaceous | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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| cushiony | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, padded |
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| cushy | (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: easygoing, soft |
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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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| cusped | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspidal | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, 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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| cussed | (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant |
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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 |
| cutaneous | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, dermal |
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| dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
| deciduous | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season | - |
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| (adjective) (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth | - |
| declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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| decorous | (adjective) characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly |
| decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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| deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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| delicious | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delightful |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| delirious | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: hallucinating |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| delusional | (adjective) suffering from or characterized by delusions | - |
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| delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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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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| depilous | (adjective) completely hairless | - |
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| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
| dexterous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dextrous |
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| dextrous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dexterous |
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| diadromous | (adjective) (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters | - |
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| diaphanous | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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| dichotomous | (adjective) divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications | - |
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| diclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in separate flowers | - |
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| dicotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed | - |
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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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| diffuse | (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffused, soft |
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| (adjective) spread out; not concentrated in one place | - |
| (adjective) lacking conciseness | - |
| diffused | (adjective) (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | Synonyms: diffuse, soft |
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| (adjective) (of light rays) subjected to scattering by reflection from a rough surface or transmission through a translucent material | - |
| diffusing | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusive, dispersive, disseminative |
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| diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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| dimorphous | (adjective) occurring or existing in two different forms | Synonyms: dimorphic |
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| dioecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals | Synonyms: dioecian |
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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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