| coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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| (adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
| (adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
| coincident | (adjective) matching point for point | - |
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| (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
| combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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| comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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| comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| complaisant | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: obliging |
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| compliant | (adjective) inclined to comply | - |
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| concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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| concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| condolent | (adjective) expressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one | - |
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| confident | (adjective) having or marked by confidence or assurance | - |
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| (adjective) not liable to error in judgment or action | Synonyms: sure-footed, surefooted |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: convinced, positive |
| confluent | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: merging |
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| congruent | (adjective) coinciding when superimposed | - |
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| (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruous |
| conjoint | (adjective) consisting of two or more associated entities | Synonyms: conjoined |
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| consentient | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, unanimous |
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| consequent | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, concomitant, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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| (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
| (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
| (adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
| consonant | (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, concordant, conformable |
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| (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: harmonic, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
| constant | (adjective) steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection | - |
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| (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
| (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, invariant, unvarying |
| constituent | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constitutional, constitutive, organic |
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| content | (adjective) satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are | Synonyms: contented |
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| continent | (adjective) having control over urination and defecation | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: celibate |
| contingent | (adjective) being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow | Synonyms: contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on |
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| (adjective) possible but not certain to occur | - |
| (adjective) uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances | - |
| continuant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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| corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| couchant | (adjective) lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward | - |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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| crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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| cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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| current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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| decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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| (adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
| decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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| decent | (adjective) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, satisfactory |
| (adjective) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress | - |
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: fitting |
| (adjective) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous | Synonyms: nice |
| (adjective) sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public | - |
| decumbent | (adjective) lying down; in a position of comfort or rest | Synonyms: accumbent, recumbent |
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| deferent | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferential, regardful |
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| defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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| defiant | (adjective) boldly resisting authority or an opposing force | Synonyms: noncompliant |
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| deficient | (adjective) of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement | Synonyms: insufficient |
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| (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: lacking, wanting |
| (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: inferior, substandard |
| dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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| delinquent | (adjective) past due; not paid at the scheduled time | Synonyms: overdue |
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| (adjective) guilty of a misdeed | - |
| (adjective) failing in what duty requires | Synonyms: derelict, neglectful, remiss |
| deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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| demulcent | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, salving, softening |
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| dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
| dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
| (adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
| (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
| (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
| depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
| descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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| (adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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| determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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| deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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| deviant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviate |
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| different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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| (adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
| (adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
| (adjective) distinct or separate | - |
| diffident | (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: shy, timid, unsure |
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| (adjective) showing modest reserve | - |
| diligent | (adjective) characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks | - |
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| (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: persevering |
| discontent | (adjective) showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing | Synonyms: discontented |
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| discordant | (adjective) not in agreement or harmony | - |
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| (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: disharmonious, dissonant, inharmonic |
| discrepant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, dissonant |
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| (adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: inconsistent |
| (adjective) not compatible with other facts | Synonyms: incompatible |
| disinfectant | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, germicidal |
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| disjoint | (adjective) having no elements in common | - |
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| disobedient | (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority | - |
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| (adjective) unwilling to submit to authority | Synonyms: unruly |
| dissentient | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissenting, dissident |
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| (adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: recusant |
| dissident | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissenting |
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| (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: heretical, heterodox |
| dissilient | (adjective) bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels | - |
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| dissonant | (adjective) not in accord | Synonyms: at variance, discrepant |
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| (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, inharmonic |
| (adjective) characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved | Synonyms: unresolved |
| distant | (adjective) separated in space or coming from or going to a distance | - |
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| (adjective) far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship | Synonyms: remote |
| (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, upstage |
| (adjective) located far away spatially | Synonyms: remote |
| (adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: remote, removed |
| divalent | (adjective) having a valence of two or having two valences | Synonyms: bivalent |
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| divergent | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: diverging |
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| (adjective) diverging from another or from a standard | - |
| dominant | (adjective) exercising influence or control | - |
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| (adjective) (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar | - |
| (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: predominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife |
| dormant | (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: hibernating, torpid |
| (adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: abeyant |
| (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping |
| ebullient | (adjective) joyously unrestrained | Synonyms: exuberant, high-spirited |
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| efferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS | Synonyms: motorial |
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| effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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| (adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| efficient | (adjective) being effective without wasting time or effort or expense | - |
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| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: effective |
| efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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| effluent | (adjective) that is flowing outward | Synonyms: outflowing |
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| effulgent | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beaming, beamy, radiant, refulgent |
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| elegant | (adjective) refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style | - |
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| (adjective) displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution | - |
| (adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth | Synonyms: graceful, refined |
| eloquent | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: facile, fluent, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| embonpoint | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, plump |
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| emergent | (adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emerging |
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| (adjective) occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action | - |
| eminent | (adjective) of imposing height; especially standing out above others | Synonyms: lofty, soaring, towering |
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| (adjective) standing above others in quality or position | Synonyms: high |
| emollient | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, salving, softening |
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