| connate | (adjective) of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united | - |
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| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: cognate |
| consecrate | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrated, dedicated |
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| considerate | (adjective) showing concern for the rights and feelings of others | - |
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| consummate | (adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities | Synonyms: complete |
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| (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: masterful, masterly, virtuoso |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| cordate | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordiform, heart-shaped |
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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 |
| correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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| costate | (adjective) having ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: ribbed |
| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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| cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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| 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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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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| defoliate | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliated |
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| degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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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 |
| delineate | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineated, represented |
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| dentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections in the margin | - |
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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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| desiccate | (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccated |
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| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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| digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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| discalceate | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalced, unshod |
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| disconsolate | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable |
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| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| discorporate | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| disparate | (adjective) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind | - |
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| (adjective) including markedly dissimilar elements | - |
| dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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| disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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| (adjective) not proportionate | - |
| dolabrate | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabriform |
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| duplicate | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: matching, twin, twinned |
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| (adjective) identically copied from an original | - |
| ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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| edentate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentulate |
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| edentulate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentate |
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| effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| elaborate | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: detailed, elaborated |
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| (adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail | Synonyms: luxuriant |
| elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
| emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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| emasculate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| enate | (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enatic, maternal |
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| etiolate | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolated |
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| eusporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| eviscerate | (adjective) having been disembowelled | - |
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| exanimate | (adjective) deprived of life; no longer living | Synonyms: lifeless |
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| extortionate | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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| falcate | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falciform, sickle-shaped |
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| fastigiate | (adjective) having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) | - |
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| faveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted |
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| federate | (adjective) united under a central government | Synonyms: federated |
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| fimbriate | (adjective) having a fringe of slender processes | - |
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| fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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| flagellate | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike |
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| foliate | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliated |
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| (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves | - |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliated |
| foliolate | (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets | - |
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| forcipate | (adjective) shaped like a forceps; deeply forked | - |
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| forficate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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| fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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| (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
| (adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
| geniculate | (adjective) bent at a sharp angle | - |
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| graduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: postgraduate |
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| hastate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base | Synonyms: spearhead-shaped |
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| illegitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
| illiterate | (adjective) not able to read or write | - |
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| (adjective) lacking culture, especially in language and literature | - |
| (adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: ignorant |
| imbricate | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricated |
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| immaculate | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, impeccable, incorrupted |
| (adjective) free from stain or blemish | Synonyms: undefiled |
| immediate | (adjective) having no intervening medium | - |
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| (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway |
| (adjective) of the present time and place | - |
| (adjective) immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect | - |
| immoderate | (adjective) beyond reasonable limits | - |
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| imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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| imperforate | (adjective) not perforated; having no opening | - |
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| importunate | (adjective) persistent to the point of annoying | - |
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| (adjective) expressing persistant and earnest entreaty | - |
| inaccurate | (adjective) erroneous | - |
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| inadequate | (adjective) lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task | Synonyms: unequal |
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| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: jejune, poor, short |
| inanimate | (adjective) not endowed with life | Synonyms: non-living, nonliving |
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| (adjective) belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things | - |
| (adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: breathless, pulseless |
| inappropriate | (adjective) not suitable for a particular occasion etc | - |
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| (adjective) not in keeping with what is correct or proper | Synonyms: incompatible, out of keeping, unfitting |
| inarticulate | (adjective) without or deprived of the use of speech or words | Synonyms: unarticulate |
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| incarnate | (adjective) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied |
| inchoate | (adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | Synonyms: incipient |
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| incommensurate | (adjective) not corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| inconsiderate | (adjective) lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others | - |
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| (adjective) without proper consideration or reflection | Synonyms: unconsidered |
| incorporate | (adjective) formed or united into a whole | Synonyms: incorporated, integrated, merged, unified |
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| incurvate | (adjective) bent into or having an inward curve | Synonyms: incurved |
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| indelicate | (adjective) lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct | Synonyms: indecorous |
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| (adjective) verging on the indecent | - |
| (adjective) in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent | Synonyms: off-color, off-colour |
| indeterminate | (adjective) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance | Synonyms: undetermined |
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| (adjective) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex | - |
| (adjective) of uncertain or ambiguous nature | - |
| (adjective) not leading to a definite ending or result | - |
| (adjective) (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved | - |
| indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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| (adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
| indurate | (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, pachydermatous |
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| inelaborate | (adjective) not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail | Synonyms: unelaborate |
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| innate | (adjective) not established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: unconditioned, unlearned |
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| (adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: born, natural |
| (adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: congenital, inborn |
| innumerate | (adjective) lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods | - |
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| inordinate | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: excessive, undue, unreasonable |
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| insatiate | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiable, unsatiable |
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