| compendious | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, succinct, summary |
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| congenerous | (adjective) belonging to the same genus | Synonyms: congeneric, congenerical |
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| congruous | (adjective) corresponding in character or kind | Synonyms: congruent |
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| (adjective) suitable or appropriate together | - |
| coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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| consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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| conscienceless | (adjective) lacking a conscience | Synonyms: unconscionable |
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| conscientious | (adjective) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous |
| conscious | (adjective) knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') showing realization or recognition of something | - |
| (adjective) intentionally conceived | Synonyms: witting |
| consentaneous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentient, unanimous |
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| conspicuous | (adjective) obvious to the eye or mind | - |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, blazing |
| contagious | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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| (adjective) easily diffused or spread as from one person to another | - |
| contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
| contemptuous | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: disdainful, insulting, scornful |
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| contentious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
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| (adjective) involving or likely to cause controversy | - |
| conterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, coterminous |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: contiguous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| contiguous | (adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: immediate |
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| (adjective) connecting without a break; within a common boundary | Synonyms: conterminous |
| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: adjacent, conterminous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| continuous | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: uninterrupted |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity | - |
| contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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| contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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| contumacious | (adjective) wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient | - |
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| contumelious | (adjective) arrogantly insolent | - |
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| copious | (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, plenteous, plentiful, rich |
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| (adjective) large in number or quantity (especially of discourse) | Synonyms: voluminous |
| cordless | (adjective) not having a cord | - |
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| coriaceous | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: leathered, leatherlike, leathery |
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| cormous | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormose |
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| corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
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| costless | (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, free, gratis, gratuitous |
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| coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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| countless | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| courageous | (adjective) possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching | Synonyms: brave |
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| courteous | (adjective) characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: gracious, nice |
| covetous | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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| (adjective) showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages | Synonyms: envious, jealous |
| crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| crapulous | (adjective) given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulent |
| crass | (adjective) (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility | - |
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| creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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| credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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| (adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
| cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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| cretinous | (adjective) afflicted with cretinism | - |
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| crisscross | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscrossed |
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| cross | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: thwartwise, transversal, transverse |
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| (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
| crownless | (adjective) not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | Synonyms: uncrowned |
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| cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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| crustaceous | (adjective) being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell | - |
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| (adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea | Synonyms: crustacean |
| cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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| cucurbitaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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| cumulous | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulus |
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| (adjective) thrown together in a pile | - |
| cumulus | (adjective) of or related to cumulous clouds | Synonyms: cumulous |
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| cuprous | (adjective) of or containing divalent copper | Synonyms: cupric |
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| curious | (adjective) eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns) | - |
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| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| curtainless | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: uncurtained |
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| curvaceous | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| cutaneous | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, dermal |
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| dangerous | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: unsafe |
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| (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
| dateless | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: endless, sempiternal |
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| (adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: timeless |
| (adjective) not bearing a date | Synonyms: undated |
| (adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date | - |
| dauntless | (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
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| deathless | (adjective) never dying | Synonyms: undying |
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| deciduous | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season | - |
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| (adjective) (of teeth, antlers, etc.) being shed at the end of a period of growth | - |
| declivitous | (adjective) sloping down rather steeply | Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping |
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| decorous | (adjective) characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct | - |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly |
| defenceless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenseless |
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| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenseless |
| defenseless | (adjective) lacking weapons for self-defense | Synonyms: defenceless |
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| (adjective) having no protecting or concealing cover | Synonyms: naked |
| (adjective) lacking protection or support | Synonyms: defenceless |
| deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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| delicious | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delightful |
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| (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy |
| delirious | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: hallucinating |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained |
| depilous | (adjective) completely hairless | - |
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| desirous | (adjective) having or expressing desire for something | Synonyms: wishful |
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| devious | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: circuitous, roundabout |
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| (adjective) indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading | Synonyms: oblique |
| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: shifty |
| dexterous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dextrous |
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| dextrous | (adjective) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands | Synonyms: deft, dexterous |
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| diadromous | (adjective) (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters | - |
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| diaphanous | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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| dichotomous | (adjective) divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications | - |
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| diclinous | (adjective) having pistils and stamens in separate flowers | - |
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| dicotyledonous | (adjective) (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed | - |
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| diestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrual, dioestrous, dioestrual |
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| dimorphous | (adjective) occurring or existing in two different forms | Synonyms: dimorphic |
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| dioecious | (adjective) having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals | Synonyms: dioecian |
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| dioestrous | (adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity | Synonyms: diestrous, diestrual, dioestrual |
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| dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
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| directionless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
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| disadvantageous | (adjective) involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness | Synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable |
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| disastrous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful |
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| discomycetous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fungi of the subclass Discomycetes | - |
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| discontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: noncontinuous |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities | - |
| discourteous | (adjective) showing no courtesy; rude | - |
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| (adjective) lacking social graces | Synonyms: ungracious |
| disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disputatious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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| dissentious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: divisive, factious |
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| divers | (adjective) many and different | Synonyms: diverse |
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| dizygous | (adjective) derived from two separately fertilized eggs | Synonyms: dizygotic |
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| dolorous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| dolourous | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping |
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| dowerless | (adjective) lacking a dowry | - |
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| downstairs | (adjective) on or of lower floors of a building | Synonyms: downstair |
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| dreamless | (adjective) untroubled by dreams | - |
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| dress | (adjective) (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes | Synonyms: full-dress |
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| (adjective) suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: full-dress |
| dripless | (adjective) designed to prevent dripping | - |
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