| contorted | (adjective) twisted (especially as in pain or struggle) | Synonyms: writhed, writhen |
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| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| controlled | (adjective) restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds | - |
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| 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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| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| convoluted | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convolute |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| cooked | (adjective) having been prepared for eating by the application of heat | - |
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| coolheaded | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, nerveless |
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| coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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| (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
| (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |
| copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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| corbelled | (adjective) having a corbel | - |
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| corded | (adjective) of textiles; having parallel raised lines | Synonyms: twilled |
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| corked | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corky |
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| corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
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| cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| corrected | (adjective) having something undesirable neutralized | - |
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| correlated | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlative |
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| corroded | (adjective) eaten away as by acid or oxidation | - |
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| corrugated | (adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges | - |
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| corrupted | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: debased, vitiated |
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| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupt |
| costumed | (adjective) dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class | - |
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| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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| counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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| countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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| countryfied | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, rustic |
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| coupled | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: joined, linked |
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| (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, conjugated |
| covered | (adjective) overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form | - |
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| coveted | (adjective) much wanted | Synonyms: in demand, sought-after, sought after |
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| cowled | (adjective) having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood | - |
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| crabbed | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
| (adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
| cragged | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: craggy, hilly, mountainous |
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| cramped | (adjective) constricted in size | - |
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| crannied | (adjective) having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones) | - |
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| craved | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: desired |
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| crazed | (adjective) driven insane | Synonyms: deranged, half-crazed |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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| crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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| crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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| crested | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: plumed |
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| (adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: topknotted, tufted |
| (adjective) bearing an heraldic device | - |
| crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crippled | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
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| crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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| crocked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| crocketed | (adjective) (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | - |
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| crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
| (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
| cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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| crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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| crossed | (adjective) placed crosswise | - |
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| (adjective) (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it | - |
| crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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| crowded | (adjective) overfilled or compacted or concentrated | - |
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| crowned | (adjective) provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) having an (artificial) crown on a tooth | - |
| (adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: laureled, laurelled |
| crumpled | (adjective) of metal e.g. | Synonyms: bent, dented |
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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 | - |
| crusted | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crustlike, crusty, encrusted |
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| crystalised | (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalized, glace |
| crystalized | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalised, glace |
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| crystallised | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallized |
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| crystallized | (adjective) having become fixed and definite in form | Synonyms: crystallised |
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| (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystalised |
| cultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing | - |
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| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite |
| (adjective) no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use | - |
| cultured | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, genteel, polite |
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| curdled | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, grumose, grumous |
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| cured | (adjective) (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) | Synonyms: vulcanised, vulcanized |
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| (adjective) (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening | - |
| (adjective) freed from illness or injury | Synonyms: healed, recovered |
| (adjective) (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process | Synonyms: aged |
| (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: corned |
| (adjective) (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry | - |
| curled | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curling |
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| cursed | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: curst |
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| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
| curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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| curved | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curving |
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| cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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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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| 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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| dabbled | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: spattered, splashed, splattered |
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| damaged | (adjective) harmed or injured or spoiled | - |
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| (adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: discredited |
| damned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: cursed, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
| dandified | (adjective) affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner | Synonyms: dandyish, foppish |
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| dappled | (adjective) having spots or patches of color | Synonyms: mottled |
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| darkened | (adjective) become or made dark by lack of light | - |
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| (adjective) (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time | - |
| darned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| dashed | (adjective) having gaps or spaces | Synonyms: dotted |
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| dated | (adjective) marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past | - |
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| daunted | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: bothered, fazed |
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| dazed | (adjective) in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | Synonyms: stunned, stupefied, stupid |
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| (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: foggy, groggy, logy, stuporous |
| dazzled | (adjective) having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light | - |
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| (adjective) stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering | - |
| deadened | (adjective) made or become less intense | - |
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| (adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: dead |
| deadlocked | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: stalemated |
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| deafened | (adjective) caused to hear poorly or not at all | - |
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| debased | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: corrupted, vitiated |
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| (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, adulterated |
| (adjective) lowered in value | Synonyms: degraded, devalued |
| debauched | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| debilitated | (adjective) lacking energy or vitality | Synonyms: adynamic, asthenic, enervated |
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| deboned | (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: boned |
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| decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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| decayed | (adjective) damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless | Synonyms: rotted, rotten |
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