| cancelled | (adjective) (of events) no longer planned or scheduled | Synonyms: off |
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| cancellous | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellated |
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| cancerous | (adjective) like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or affected with cancer | - |
| cancroid | (adjective) of or relating to a cancroid | - |
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| candent | (adjective) emitting light as a result of being heated | Synonyms: incandescent |
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| candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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| candid | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness | Synonyms: heart-to-heart, open |
| (adjective) informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared | - |
| candied | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: crystalised, crystalized, glace |
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| (adjective) encrusted with sugar or syrup | Synonyms: sugar-coated |
| canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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| (adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
| canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
| canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
| cankerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: ulcerated, ulcerous |
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| canned | (adjective) sealed in a can or jar | Synonyms: tinned |
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| (adjective) recorded for broadcast | Synonyms: transcribed |
| cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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| cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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| cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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| canny | (adjective) showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others | Synonyms: cagey, cagy, clever |
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| canonic | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonical |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonical |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonical, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonical |
| canonical | (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law | Synonyms: canonic |
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| (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon | Synonyms: canonic |
| (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules | Synonyms: canonic, sanctioned |
| (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality | Synonyms: basic, canonic |
| canonised | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonized, glorified |
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| canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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| canonized | (adjective) accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing | Synonyms: canonised, glorified |
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| canopied | (adjective) covered with or as with a canopy | - |
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| canorous | (adjective) richly melodious | Synonyms: songful |
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| cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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| cantankerous | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: crotchety, ornery |
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| (adjective) stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate | Synonyms: bloody-minded |
| canted | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| cantonal | (adjective) of or relating to a canton | - |
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| canty | (adjective) lively and brisk | - |
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| capable | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') having capacity or ability | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `of') having the temperament or inclination for | - |
| (adjective) having the requisite qualities for | Synonyms: adequate to, equal to, up to |
| (adjective) have the skills and qualifications to do things well | Synonyms: able |
| (adjective) possibly accepting or permitting | Synonyms: open, subject |
| capacious | (adjective) large in capacity | - |
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| capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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| caparisoned | (adjective) clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings) | - |
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| capillary | (adjective) of or relating to hair | - |
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| (adjective) long and slender with a very small internal diameter | Synonyms: hairlike |
| capital | (adjective) of principal importance | - |
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| (adjective) first-rate | - |
| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: great, majuscule |
| capitalist | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalistic |
| capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
| capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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| capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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| capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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| capped | (adjective) covered as if with a cap or crown especially of a specified kind | - |
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| (adjective) used especially of front teeth having (artificial) crowns | - |
| capricious | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: impulsive, whimsical |
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| (adjective) changeable | Synonyms: freakish |
| caprine | (adjective) being or pertaining to or resembling a goat or goats | - |
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| capsular | (adjective) of or relating to a capsule | - |
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| (adjective) resembling a capsule | - |
| capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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| capsulated | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate |
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| captious | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: faultfinding |
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| captivated | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) strongly attracted | Synonyms: charmed |
| captivating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| captive | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: confined, imprisoned, jailed |
| caramel | (adjective) having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown | Synonyms: caramel brown |
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| carangid | (adjective) of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae | - |
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| carbocyclic | (adjective) having or relating to or characterized by a ring composed of carbon atoms | - |
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| carbolated | (adjective) containing or treated with carbolic acid | - |
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| carbonaceous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonic, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carbonated | (adjective) having carbonation (especially artificially carbonated) | - |
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| carbonic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carboniferous, carbonous |
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| carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
| carbonous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carboniferous |
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| carbonyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonylic |
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| carbonylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carbonyl group | Synonyms: carbonyl |
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| carboxyl | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxylic |
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| carboxylic | (adjective) relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical | Synonyms: carboxyl |
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| carbuncled | (adjective) set with carbuncles | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncular |
| carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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| carcinogenic | (adjective) causing or tending to cause cancer | - |
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| carcinomatous | (adjective) being or relating to carcinoma | - |
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| cardboard | (adjective) without substance | Synonyms: unlifelike |
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| cardiac | (adjective) of or relating to the heart | - |
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| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| cardiographic | (adjective) of or relating to a cardiograph | - |
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| cardiologic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing cardiology | - |
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| cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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| cardiorespiratory | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiopulmonary |
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| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| carefree | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: unworried |
| careful | (adjective) exercising caution or showing care or attention | - |
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| (adjective) cautiously attentive | Synonyms: heedful |
| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: thrifty |
| (adjective) full of cares or anxiety | - |
| (adjective) unhurried and with care and dignity | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
| careless | (adjective) marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful | - |
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| (adjective) effortless and unstudied | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration | Synonyms: regardless |
| careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
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| carinal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a carina | - |
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| carinate | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinated, keeled, ridged |
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| carinated | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, keeled, ridged |
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| caring | (adjective) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others | - |
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| carious | (adjective) (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay | - |
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| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| carmine | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| carnal | (adjective) of or relating to the body or flesh | - |
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| (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, fleshly, sensual |
| carnassial | (adjective) (of a tooth) adapted for shearing flesh | - |
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| carnation | (adjective) pink or pinkish | - |
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| carnivorous | (adjective) (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of carnivores | - |
| carotid | (adjective) of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck | - |
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| carousing | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic |
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| carpal | (adjective) of or relating to the wrist | - |
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| carpellary | (adjective) belonging to or forming or containing carpels | - |
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| carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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| carpetbag | (adjective) following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers | - |
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| (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbagging |
| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| carpeted | (adjective) covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| carpophagous | (adjective) feeding on fruit | Synonyms: fruit-eating |
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