| cagey | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagy, chary |
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| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagy, canny, clever |
| cagy | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, chary |
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| (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, canny, clever |
| calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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| callipygian | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygous |
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| callipygous | (adjective) pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks | Synonyms: callipygian |
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| calumniatory | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| calyceal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calycinal, calycine |
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| calycinal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycine |
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| calycine | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx | Synonyms: calyceal, calycinal |
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| calycled | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calyculate |
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| calycular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calicular |
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| calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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| calyptrate | (adjective) having a calyptra | - |
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| (adjective) having calypters | - |
| campy | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: camp |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| canary | (adjective) having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow | Synonyms: canary-yellow |
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| canny | (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, clever |
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| canty | (adjective) lively and brisk | - |
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| capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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| (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
| capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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| carbocyclic | (adjective) having or relating to or characterized by a ring composed of carbon atoms | - |
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| carbonyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonylic |
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| carbonylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonyl |
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| carboxyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxylic |
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| carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carroty | (adjective) resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant | - |
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| caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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| cataclysmal | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmic |
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| cataclysmic | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmal |
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| catalytic | (adjective) relating to or causing or involving catalysis | - |
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| catchpenny | (adjective) designed to sell quickly without concern for quality | - |
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| catchy | (adjective) likely to attract attention | Synonyms: attention-getting |
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| (adjective) having concealed difficulty | Synonyms: tricky |
| catty | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, cattish |
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| cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
| celebratory | (adjective) used for celebrating | - |
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| centenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 100 years | Synonyms: centennial |
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| centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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| certificatory | (adjective) serving to certify or endorse authoritatively | - |
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| chaffy | (adjective) abounding in or covered with or resembling or consisting of chaff | Synonyms: chafflike |
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| (adjective) value | - |
| chalky | (adjective) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk | Synonyms: calcareous |
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| (adjective) of something having the color of chalk | - |
| chalybeate | (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron | - |
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| chancy | (adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk | Synonyms: chanceful, dicey, dodgy |
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| (adjective) subject to accident or chance or change | Synonyms: flukey, fluky, iffy |
| chary | (adjective) characterized by great caution and wariness | Synonyms: cagey, cagy |
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| chatoyant | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot |
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| chatty | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: gossipy, newsy |
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| (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky |
| cheeky | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, nervy |
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| cheery | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: gay, sunny |
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| cheesy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| cherry | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| cherty | (adjective) resembling or containing chert | - |
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| chesty | (adjective) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride | Synonyms: arrogant, self-important |
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| (adjective) marked by a large or well-developed chest | Synonyms: big-chested |
| chewy | (adjective) (of a consistency) requiring chewing | - |
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| (adjective) requiring much chewing | - |
| childly | (adjective) befitting a young child | Synonyms: childlike |
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| chilly | (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold | Synonyms: parky |
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| (adjective) not characterized by emotion | - |
| (adjective) lacking warmth of feeling | - |
| chinchy | (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chintzy |
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| chintzy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chinchy |
| chirpy | (adjective) (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, perky |
| chlamydeous | (adjective) having a floral envelope or perianth consisting of a calyx and/or corolla | - |
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| chlamydial | (adjective) of or pertaining to the sexually transmitted infection or to the parasite | - |
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| chlorophyllose | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllous |
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| chlorophyllous | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllose |
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| choky | (adjective) so tight as to tend to choke | - |
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| choosey | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosy |
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| choosy | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosey |
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| choppy | (adjective) rough with small waves | - |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: jerky |
| christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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| christly | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christlike |
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| chubby | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: embonpoint, plump |
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| chummy | (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, thick |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: matey, pally, palsy-walsy |
| chunky | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy |
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| (adjective) like or containing small sticky lumps | Synonyms: lumpy |
| churchly | (adjective) resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church | - |
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| chylaceous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylous |
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| chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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| chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| chylific | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylifactory |
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| chylous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylaceous |
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| ciliary | (adjective) relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliate |
| (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliate |
| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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| cissy | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| cityfied | (adjective) being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person | Synonyms: citified, city-born, city-bred |
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| citywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a city | - |
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| clairvoyant | (adjective) perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: precognitive, second-sighted |
| clammy | (adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: dank |
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| clarifying | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: elucidative |
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| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| classy | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: posh, swish |
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| clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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| clayey | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: argillaceous |
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| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: cloggy, heavy |
| cleanly | (adjective) habitually clean | - |
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| clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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| cloggy | (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, heavy |
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| cloudy | (adjective) full of or covered with clouds | - |
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| (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: nebulose, nebulous |
| (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: mirky, muddy, murky, turbid |
| cloying | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: saccharine, syrupy, treacly |
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| clubby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, snobbish, snobby |
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| (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubbish |