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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convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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(adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
cooperative | (adjective) done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit | - |
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(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, united |
(adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: accommodative |
coordinative | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinating |
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copulative | (adjective) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
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corrective | (adjective) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition | - |
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(adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary |
correlative | (adjective) expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation | - |
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(adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlated |
corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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(adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
corruptive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: perversive, pestiferous |
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costive | (adjective) retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating | - |
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counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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covered | (adjective) overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form | - |
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covert | (adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | - |
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(adjective) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband | - |
coveted | (adjective) much wanted | Synonyms: in demand, sought-after, sought after |
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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 |
craved | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: desired |
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craven | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: recreant |
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creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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(adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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cumulative | (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: accumulative |
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curative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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cursive | (adjective) having successive letters joined together | - |
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curved | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curving |
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curvey | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvy |
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debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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deceptive | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: misleading |
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(adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: delusory |
decisive | (adjective) determining or having the power to determine an outcome | - |
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(adjective) characterized by decision and firmness | - |
(adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: critical |
(adjective) unmistakable | - |
declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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(adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
decorative | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, ornamental |
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decurved | (adjective) bent down or curved downward | - |
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deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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(adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
defective | (adjective) markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior | - |
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(adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: faulty |
(adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: bad |
defensive | (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack | - |
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(adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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definitive | (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: determinate |
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(adjective) clearly defined or formulated | Synonyms: unequivocal |
(adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: authoritative |
deflective | (adjective) capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) | Synonyms: refractive |
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degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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(adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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delineative | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: depictive |
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deliverable | (adjective) suitable for or ready for delivery | - |
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delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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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 |
denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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denotative | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotive |
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(adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: explicit |
denotive | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotative |
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denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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depraved | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: perverse, perverted, reprobate |
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deprecative | (adjective) given to expressing disapproval | - |
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(adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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(adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |
deprived | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: disadvantaged |
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derisive | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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derived | (adjective) formed or developed from something else; not original | - |
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derogative | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogatory, disparaging |
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descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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(adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
deserved | (adjective) properly deserved | Synonyms: merited |
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designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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developed | (adjective) being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful | - |
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(adjective) (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads | - |
(adjective) (used of societies) having high industrial development | Synonyms: highly-developed |
developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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developmental | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting development | - |
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diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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discoverable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: ascertainable |
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discovered | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: ascertained, observed |
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discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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(adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
disheveled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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dishevelled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled |
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disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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(adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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dissimulative | (adjective) concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive | - |
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dissociative | (adjective) tending to produce dissociation | - |
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dissolved | (adjective) (of solid matter) reduced to a liquid form | - |
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dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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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 |
distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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(adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |