| cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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| 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 | - |
| cavitied | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| cervical | (adjective) relating to or associated with the neck | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the cervix of the uterus | - |
| cervine | (adjective) relating to or resembling deer | - |
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| champleve | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: cloisonne |
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| chauvinistic | (adjective) of or relating to persons convinced of the superiority of their own gender or kind | - |
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| (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
| chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chivalric | (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: knightly, mediaeval, medieval |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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| circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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| civic | (adjective) of or relating or belonging to a city | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civil |
| civil | (adjective) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | Synonyms: polite |
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| (adjective) (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals | Synonyms: civic |
| (adjective) of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state | - |
| (adjective) applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military | - |
| (adjective) of or in a condition of social order | - |
| civilian | (adjective) associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military | - |
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| civilised | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilized |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| civilized | (adjective) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological | Synonyms: civilised |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite |
| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| cleavable | (adjective) capable of being cleaved | - |
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| clever | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: cunning, ingenious |
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| (adjective) mentally quick and resourceful | Synonyms: apt |
| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, canny |
| cloven | (adjective) (used of hooves) split, divided | Synonyms: bisulcate |
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| clv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred fifty | Synonyms: 155, one hundred fifty-five |
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| clxv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred sixty | Synonyms: 165, one hundred sixty-five |
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| clxxv | (adjective) being five more than one hundred seventy | Synonyms: 175, one hundred seventy-five |
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| coercive | (adjective) serving or intended to coerce | - |
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| coeval | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, contemporaneous |
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| coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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| cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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| (adjective) given to cogitation | - |
| cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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| cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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| (adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
| collaborative | (adjective) accomplished by collaboration | - |
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| collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
| (adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
| collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
| collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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| combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
| combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
| combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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| commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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| commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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| communicative | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to communication | - |
| commutative | (adjective) (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a" | - |
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| comparative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) relating to or based on or involving comparison | - |
| competitive | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitory |
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| (adjective) showing a fighting disposition | Synonyms: militant |
| (adjective) subscribing to capitalistic competition | Synonyms: free-enterprise, private-enterprise |
| complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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| comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope | - |
| compulsive | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: determined, driven |
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| (adjective) caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion | - |
| concave | (adjective) curving inward | - |
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| conceivable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: imaginable |
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| conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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| conciliative | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliatory |
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| conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| conducive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| conductive | (adjective) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity | - |
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| confederative | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederate |
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| confirmative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| confutative | (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, questionable, refutable |
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| congestive | (adjective) relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid | - |
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| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
| connective | (adjective) connecting or tending to connect | - |
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| conniving | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: collusive |
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| (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, scheming, shrewd |
| connotative | (adjective) having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit | - |
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| consecutive | (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: straight |
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| (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: sequent, sequential, serial, successive |
| (adjective) one after the other | Synonyms: back-to-back |
| conservative | (adjective) resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginatively conventional | Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic |
| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: cautious |
| (adjective) having social or political views favoring conservatism | - |
| conserved | (adjective) protected from harm or loss | - |
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| consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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| (adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
| conspirative | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspiratorial |
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| constitutive | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, organic |
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| constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
| constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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| (adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
| consultative | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultatory, consultive |
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| consultive | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultatory |
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| consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
| contaminative | (adjective) making impure by contact or mixing | - |
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| contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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| (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
| (adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
| conventional | (adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginative and conformist | - |
| (adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | - |
| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: ceremonious |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: formal, schematic |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: established |
| (adjective) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | - |
| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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| conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| conversational | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: colloquial |
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| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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| (adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
| (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
| convex | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: bulging |
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| conveyable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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