| cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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| (adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
| collegiate | (adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegial |
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| comate | (adjective) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts | Synonyms: comose |
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| (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comal, comose |
| commensurate | (adjective) corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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| companionate | (adjective) like a companion | - |
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| compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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| complete | (adjective) having every necessary or normal part or component or step | - |
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| (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, concluded, ended, over, terminated |
| (adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities | Synonyms: consummate |
| (adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: accomplished |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| composite | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of separate interconnected parts | - |
| concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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| (adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
| confederate | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederative |
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| confiscate | (adjective) surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeited |
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| conglomerate | (adjective) composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass | - |
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| conjugate | (adjective) (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets | - |
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| (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugated, coupled |
| (adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugated |
| (adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugated |
| connate | (adjective) of similar parts or organs; closely joined or united | - |
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| (adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: cognate |
| consecrate | (adjective) solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose | Synonyms: consecrated, dedicated |
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| considerate | (adjective) showing concern for the rights and feelings of others | - |
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| consummate | (adjective) perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities | Synonyms: complete |
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| (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: masterful, masterly, virtuoso |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| cordate | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordiform, heart-shaped |
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| corporate | (adjective) of or belonging to a corporation | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate |
| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: collective |
| (adjective) organized and maintained as a legal corporation | Synonyms: incorporated |
| correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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| costate | (adjective) having ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: ribbed |
| crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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| crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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| crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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| cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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| cuneate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) narrowly triangular, wider at the apex and tapering toward the base | Synonyms: wedge-shaped |
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| cupulate | (adjective) shaped like (or supporting) a cupule | Synonyms: cupular |
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| cuspate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| cute | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: precious |
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| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cunning |
| cyanophyte | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanobacterial |
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| decollete | (adjective) (of a garment) having a low-cut neckline | Synonyms: low-cut, low-necked |
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| decussate | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: intersectant, intersecting |
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| definite | (adjective) precise; explicit and clearly defined | - |
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| (adjective) known for certain | - |
| defoliate | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliated |
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| degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| deliberate | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: calculated, measured |
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| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: careful, measured |
| (adjective) characterized by conscious design or purpose | Synonyms: intentional, knowing |
| delicate | (adjective) exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury | - |
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| (adjective) easily broken or damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragile, frail |
| (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: ticklish, touchy |
| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: finespun |
| (adjective) of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely | - |
| (adjective) marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique | - |
| (adjective) easily hurt | Synonyms: soft |
| delineate | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineated, represented |
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| dentate | (adjective) having toothlike projections in the margin | - |
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| denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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| denudate | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: bald, denuded |
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| desiccate | (adjective) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless | Synonyms: arid, desiccated |
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| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| desolate | (adjective) crushed by grief | - |
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| (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, bleak, stark |
| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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| (adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
| (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
| deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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| digitate | (adjective) resembling a finger | Synonyms: fingerlike |
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| dilettante | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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| dilute | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: diluted |
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| discalceate | (adjective) (used of certain religious orders) barefoot or wearing only sandals | Synonyms: discalced, unshod |
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| disconsolate | (adjective) sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled | Synonyms: inconsolable, unconsolable |
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| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
| discorporate | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: bodiless, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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| discrete | (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: distinct |
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| discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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| disparate | (adjective) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind | - |
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| (adjective) including markedly dissimilar elements | - |
| dispassionate | (adjective) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice | Synonyms: cold-eyed |
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| disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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| (adjective) not proportionate | - |
| dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| dolabrate | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabriform |
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| duplicate | (adjective) being two identical | Synonyms: matching, twin, twinned |
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| (adjective) identically copied from an original | - |
| ebracteate | (adjective) without bracts | - |
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| edentate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentulate |
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| edentulate | (adjective) having few if any teeth | Synonyms: edental, edentate |
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| effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| effete | (adjective) deprived of vigor and the ability to be effective | - |
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| (adjective) affected, overrefined, and effeminate | - |
| elaborate | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: detailed, elaborated |
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| (adjective) marked by complexity and richness of detail | Synonyms: luxuriant |
| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
| emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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| emasculate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| enate | (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enatic, maternal |
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| enceinte | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
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| erudite | (adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: learned |
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| etiolate | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolated |
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| eusporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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| eviscerate | (adjective) having been disembowelled | - |
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| exanimate | (adjective) deprived of life; no longer living | Synonyms: lifeless |
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| exquisite | (adjective) of extreme beauty | - |
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| (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: dainty |
| (adjective) lavishly elegant and refined | Synonyms: recherche |
| (adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: keen |
| extortionate | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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| falcate | (adjective) curved like a sickle | Synonyms: falciform, sickle-shaped |
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| fastigiate | (adjective) having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) | - |
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| faveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted |
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| favorite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favourite |
| favourite | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, pet, preferent, preferred |
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| (adjective) appealing to the general public | Synonyms: favorite |
| federate | (adjective) united under a central government | Synonyms: federated |
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| fimbriate | (adjective) having a fringe of slender processes | - |
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| finite | (adjective) bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent | - |
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| (adjective) (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person | - |
| fistulate | (adjective) hollow and tube-shaped like a reed | Synonyms: fistular, fistulous |
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| flagellate | (adjective) having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum) | Synonyms: flagellated, lash-like, whiplike |
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| foliate | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliated |
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| (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves | - |
| (adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliated |
| foliolate | (adjective) (often used as a combining form) having leaflets (compound leaves) or a specified kind or number of leaflets | - |
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| forcipate | (adjective) shaped like a forceps; deeply forked | - |
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| forficate | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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| forte | (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly | Synonyms: loud |
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