| chintzy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chinchy |
| chirpy | (adjective) (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, perky |
| choky | (adjective) so tight as to tend to choke | - |
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| choosey | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosy |
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| choosy | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosey |
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| choppy | (adjective) rough with small waves | - |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: jerky |
| christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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| christly | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christlike |
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| chubby | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: embonpoint, plump |
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| chummy | (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, thick |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: matey, pally, palsy-walsy |
| chunky | (adjective) short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature | Synonyms: dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy |
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| (adjective) like or containing small sticky lumps | Synonyms: lumpy |
| churchly | (adjective) resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church | - |
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| chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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| ciliary | (adjective) relating to the ciliary body and associated structures of the eye | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliate |
| (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliate |
| cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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| circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
| circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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| cissy | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| clammy | (adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: dank |
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| classificatory | (adjective) relating to or involving classification | - |
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| classy | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: posh, swish |
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| clattery | (adjective) a rattling sound as of hard things striking together | - |
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| clayey | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: argillaceous |
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| (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: cloggy, heavy |
| cleanly | (adjective) habitually clean | - |
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| clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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| cloggy | (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, heavy |
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| cloudy | (adjective) full of or covered with clouds | - |
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| (adjective) lacking definite form or limits | Synonyms: nebulose, nebulous |
| (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: mirky, muddy, murky, turbid |
| clubby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, snobbish, snobby |
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| (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubbish |
| clumsy | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clunky, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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| (adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: awkward, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, fumbling, incompetent |
| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, bunglesome, ungainly |
| clunky | (adjective) making a clunking sound | - |
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| (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy |
| cobwebby | (adjective) covered with cobwebs | - |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| cockamamy | (adjective) informal term for ridiculous and implausible | Synonyms: cockamamie |
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| cockney | (adjective) characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect | - |
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| cocky | (adjective) overly self-confident or self-assertive | - |
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| colicky | (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulent, gassy |
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| combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
| (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
| comely | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, fair, sightly |
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| (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
| cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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| comfy | (adjective) providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal) | Synonyms: comfortable |
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| comminatory | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: denunciative, denunciatory |
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| communicatory | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicative |
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| competitory | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitive |
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| complementary | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, completing |
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| (adjective) of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other | - |
| complimentary | (adjective) conveying or resembling a compliment | - |
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| (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: costless, free, gratis, gratuitous |
| compulsory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: mandatory, required |
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| comradely | (adjective) heartily friendly and congenial | Synonyms: hail-fellow-well-met, hail-fellow |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| condemnatory | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemning |
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| confirmatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| congratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: gratulatory |
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| consolatory | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consoling |
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| consultatory | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultive |
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| contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
| (adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| contrary | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false | - |
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| (adjective) very opposed in nature or character or purpose | - |
| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: obstinate, perverse, wayward |
| (adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: adverse |
| contrasty | (adjective) having sharp differences between black and white | - |
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| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| coppery | (adjective) of something having the color of copper | Synonyms: copper colored |
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| copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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| corky | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corked |
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| corny | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous |
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| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| costly | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy |
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| (adjective) entailing great loss or sacrifice | Synonyms: dearly-won |
| cosy | (adjective) enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space | Synonyms: cozy, snug |
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| (adjective) suggesting connivance | Synonyms: cozy |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cozy, informal, intimate |
| cottony | (adjective) resembling cotton; as soft as cotton | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| courtly | (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: formal, stately |
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| cousinly | (adjective) like or befitting a cousin | - |
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| couthy | (adjective) (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial | Synonyms: couthie |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| coy | (adjective) showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement | - |
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| (adjective) affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way | Synonyms: demure, overmodest |
| (adjective) modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures | - |
| cozy | (adjective) suggesting connivance | Synonyms: cosy |
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| (adjective) enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space | Synonyms: cosy, snug |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cosy, informal, intimate |
| crabby | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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| crafty | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| craggy | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, hilly, mountainous |
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| cranky | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, tender, tippy |
| crappy | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
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| crazy | (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: dotty, gaga, wild |
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| (adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement | - |
| (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: half-baked, screwball, softheaded |
| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) bizarre or fantastic | - |
| creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
| (adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
| creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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| (adjective) thick like cream | - |
| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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| creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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| (adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| cringey | (adjective) embarrassing such that it would cause cringing | - |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crispy | (adjective) tender and brittle | Synonyms: crisp |
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| croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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| crotchety | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, ornery |
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| croupy | (adjective) resembling or arising from or indicating croup | - |
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| cruddy | (adjective) characterized by obscenity | Synonyms: filthy, foul, nasty, smutty |
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| crumbly | (adjective) easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | Synonyms: friable |
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| crummy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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| crusty | (adjective) having a hardened crust as a covering | Synonyms: crusted, crustlike, encrusted |
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| (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
| cuddly | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddlesome |
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| culinary | (adjective) of or relating to or used in cooking | - |
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| curly | (adjective) (of hair) having curls or waves | - |
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| curmudgeonly | (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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| cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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