| crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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| crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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| (adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
| crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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| crying | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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| (adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, exigent, insistent, instant |
| cunning | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, ingenious |
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| (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cute |
| curling | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curled |
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| curving | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curved |
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| cutting | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, raw |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: edged, stinging |
| damaging | (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious |
| damning | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damnatory |
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| daring | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: audacious, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) radically new or original | Synonyms: avant-garde |
| darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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| darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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| (adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
| darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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| dashing | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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| (adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: gallant |
| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| debasing | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: degrading |
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| debilitating | (adjective) impairing the strength and vitality | - |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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| deciding | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: determinant, determinative, determining |
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| decreasing | (adjective) becoming less or smaller | - |
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| (adjective) (music) decreasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| defending | (adjective) attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring | - |
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| degrading | (adjective) used of conduct; characterized by dishonor | Synonyms: debasing |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: corrupting |
| demanding | (adjective) requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill | - |
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| demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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| demoralising | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| demoralizing | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| departing | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: outbound, outward-bound, outward |
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| deprecating | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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| depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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| descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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| desensitising | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitizing |
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| desensitizing | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitising |
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| deserving | (adjective) (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way | Synonyms: worth |
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| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |
| developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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| devouring | (adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, esurient, greedy |
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| diffusing | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusive, dispersive, disseminative |
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| dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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| dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| directing | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directional, directive, guiding |
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| disabling | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disqualifying |
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| (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, incapacitating |
| disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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| disapproving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting disapproval | - |
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| disarming | (adjective) capable of allaying hostility | - |
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| disbelieving | (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: sceptical, skeptical, unbelieving |
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| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| disconcerting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: upsetting |
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| disconfirming | (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: invalidating |
| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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| disgusting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| dismaying | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: appalling |
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| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| disorienting | (adjective) causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings | - |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| dispiriting | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening |
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| displeasing | (adjective) causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities | - |
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| disqualifying | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disabling |
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| disquieting | (adjective) causing mental discomfort | - |
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| dissenting | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissident |
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| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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| diverting | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, amusive |
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| doddering | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddery, gaga, senile |
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| dogging | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: persisting |
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| dominating | (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
| (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, overlooking |
| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| doting | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: adoring, fond |
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| doubting | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: questioning, sceptical, skeptical |
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| dragging | (adjective) marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner | - |
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| draining | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: exhausting |
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| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
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| driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| (adjective) acting with vigor | - |
| drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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| drooping | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: droopy, sagging |
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| (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: flagging |
| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
| dropping | (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: falling |
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| drowsing | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsy |
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| drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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| dumbfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumfounding |
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| dumfounding | (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: astounding, dumbfounding |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| dying | (adjective) in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be | - |
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| (adjective) eagerly desirous | Synonyms: anxious |
| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
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