canonic | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonical |
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(adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonical |
(adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonical, sanctioned |
(adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonical |
capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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(adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
carbocyclic | (adjective) having or relating to or characterized by a ring composed of carbon atoms | - |
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carbonic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carboniferous, carbonous |
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carbonylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonyl |
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carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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carcinogenic | (adjective) causing or tending to cause cancer | - |
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cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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cardiologic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing cardiology | - |
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carposporic | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carpospore | - |
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cartographic | (adjective) of or relating to the making of maps or charts | Synonyms: cartographical |
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casuistic | (adjective) of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems | Synonyms: casuistical |
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(adjective) of or relating to or practicing casuistry | Synonyms: casuistical |
catabatic | (adjective) of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night | Synonyms: katabatic |
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catabolic | (adjective) characterized by destructive metabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
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(adjective) relating to or characterized by catabolism | Synonyms: katabolic |
catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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cataclysmic | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmal |
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catalatic | (adjective) of or relating to the enzyme catalase | - |
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catalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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cataleptic | (adjective) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy | - |
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catalytic | (adjective) relating to or causing or involving catalysis | - |
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cataphatic | (adjective) of or relating to the religious belief that God can be known to humans positively or affirmatively | - |
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cataphoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: electrophoretic |
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cataplastic | (adjective) of or relating to cataplasia | - |
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catapultic | (adjective) of or like a catapult | Synonyms: catapultian |
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catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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catatonic | (adjective) characterized by catatonia especially either rigidity or extreme laxness of limbs | - |
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catechetic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechistic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or involving catechesis | Synonyms: catechetical |
catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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categorematic | (adjective) of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition | - |
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categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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(adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
cathartic | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: releasing |
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(adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: evacuant, purgative |
(adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: psychotherapeutic |
cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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cathodic | (adjective) of or at or pertaining to a cathode | - |
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catholic | (adjective) free from provincial prejudices or attachments | - |
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cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
cenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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cenogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to cenogenesis | - |
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centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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centric | (adjective) having or situated at or near a center | Synonyms: centrical |
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centromeric | (adjective) pertaining to the dense specialized portion of a chromosome to which the spindle attaches during mitosis | - |
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centrosomic | (adjective) of or relating to a centrosome | - |
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centrosymmetric | (adjective) having a symmetrical arrangement of radiating parts about a central point | Synonyms: radially symmetrical |
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cephalic | (adjective) of or relating to the head | - |
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ceramic | (adjective) of or relating to or made from a ceramic | - |
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ceric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium especially with valence 4 | - |
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chaotic | (adjective) of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions | - |
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(adjective) lacking a visible order or organization | Synonyms: helter-skelter |
(adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing | Synonyms: disorderly |
characteristic | (adjective) typical or distinctive | - |
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charismatic | (adjective) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | Synonyms: magnetic |
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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 |
chemic | (adjective) relating to or used in chemistry | Synonyms: chemical |
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chemotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to chemotherapy | Synonyms: chemotherapeutical |
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cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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chiasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmic |
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chiasmic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmatic |
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chic | (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: smart, voguish |
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chiliastic | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: millenarian |
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chimeric | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeral, chimerical |
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chiromantic | (adjective) of or relating to palmistry | - |
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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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chlorotic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: greensick |
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choleraic | (adjective) relating to or resulting from or resembling cholera | - |
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choleric | (adjective) characterized by anger | Synonyms: irascible |
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(adjective) quickly aroused to anger | Synonyms: hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered |
(adjective) easily moved to anger | - |
cholinergic | (adjective) releasing or activated by acetylcholine or a related compound | - |
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chondritic | (adjective) having a granular structure like that of chondrites | Synonyms: granular |
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choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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choric | (adjective) relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus | - |
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chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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chromatic | (adjective) being or having or characterized by hue | - |
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(adjective) based on a scale consisting of 12 semitones | - |
(adjective) able to refract light without spectral color separation | - |
chromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) readily colored by stains | - |
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chromatographic | (adjective) of or relating to chromatography | Synonyms: chromatographical |
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chronic | (adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering | - |
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(adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: continuing |
(adjective) habitual | Synonyms: inveterate |
chthonic | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, nether |
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chylific | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylifactory |
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cinematic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the cinema | - |
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citric | (adjective) of or related to citric acid | - |
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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 |
classic | (adjective) of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc. | Synonyms: classical |
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(adjective) considered of the highest quality and lasting significance or worth | - |
(adjective) well-known and long-established in form or style | Synonyms: classical |
(adjective) of a well-known type; remarkably typical | - |
classicistic | (adjective) of or relating to classicism | - |
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clastic | (adjective) capable of being taken apart | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone) | - |
claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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(adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
cleistogamic | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamous |
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climactic | (adjective) consisting of or causing a climax | - |
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climatic | (adjective) of or relating to a climate | Synonyms: climatical |
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clitoric | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoral |
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clonic | (adjective) of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation | - |
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coenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitical |
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collagenic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenous |
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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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colonic | (adjective) of or relating to the colon | - |
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colorimetric | (adjective) of or relating to colorimetry | Synonyms: colorimetrical |
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cometic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometary |
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comic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of comedy | - |
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(adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
communistic | (adjective) relating to or marked by communism | Synonyms: communist |
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concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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congeneric | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congenerical, congenerous |
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