| cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
| carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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| caryophyllaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to plants of the family Caryophyllaceae | - |
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| caseous | (adjective) of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike | - |
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| catadromous | (adjective) migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn | - |
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| cautious | (adjective) showing careful forethought | - |
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| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: conservative |
| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| cementitious | (adjective) like or relevant to or having the properties of cement | - |
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| censorious | (adjective) harshly critical or expressing censure | - |
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| ceremonious | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: pompous |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: conventional |
| cernuous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
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| cerous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing cerium with valence 3 | - |
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| ceruminous | (adjective) relating to or secreting cerumen | - |
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| cetaceous | (adjective) of or relating to whales and dolphins etc | Synonyms: cetacean |
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| chaetognathous | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathan |
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| chancrous | (adjective) of or having chancres | - |
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| chartaceous | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: paperlike, papery |
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| chelicerous | (adjective) having chelicerae | - |
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| cheliferous | (adjective) having chelae | - |
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| chitinous | (adjective) of or resembling chitin | - |
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| chivalrous | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: gallant, knightly |
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| chlamydeous | (adjective) having a floral envelope or perianth consisting of a calyx and/or corolla | - |
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| chlorophyllous | (adjective) relating to or being or containing chlorophyll | Synonyms: chlorophyllose |
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| chylaceous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylous |
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| chyliferous | (adjective) transmitting chyle | - |
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| chylous | (adjective) consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle | Synonyms: chylaceous |
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| circuitous | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: devious, roundabout |
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| (adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: roundabout |
| circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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| citrous | (adjective) of or relating to or producing fruit of the plants of the genus Citrus | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to plants of the genus Citrus | - |
| clamorous | (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, strident, vociferous |
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| clangorous | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clanging |
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| cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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| coetaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coeval, contemporaneous |
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| collagenous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenic |
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| commodious | (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: convenient |
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| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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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| coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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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 |
| crapulous | (adjective) given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking | - |
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| (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulent |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| disadvantageous | (adjective) involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness | Synonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable |
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