| contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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| contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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| 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 |
| contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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| contralto | (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: alto |
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| contrapuntal | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint | - |
| contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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| 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 |
| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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| (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
| (adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
| contrasty | (adjective) having sharp differences between black and white | - |
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| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| contrite | (adjective) feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses | Synonyms: remorseful, rueful, ruthful |
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| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| controllable | (adjective) capable of being controlled | Synonyms: governable |
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| controlled | (adjective) restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds | - |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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| contumacious | (adjective) wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient | - |
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| contumelious | (adjective) arrogantly insolent | - |
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| convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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| convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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| (adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
| conventional | (adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginative and conformist | - |
| (adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | - |
| (adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: ceremonious |
| (adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: formal, schematic |
| (adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: established |
| (adjective) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | - |
| conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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| conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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| conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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| convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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| conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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| conversational | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: colloquial |
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| converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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| (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
| convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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| (adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
| (adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
| convex | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: bulging |
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| conveyable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: assignable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| convinced | (adjective) having a strong belief or conviction | - |
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| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, positive |
| convincible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: persuadable, persuasible, suasible |
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| convincing | (adjective) causing one to believe the truth of something | - |
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| convivial | (adjective) occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company | Synonyms: good-time |
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| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| convoluted | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convolute |
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| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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| (adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
| cooccurring | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, simultaneous |
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| cooked | (adjective) having been prepared for eating by the application of heat | - |
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| cool | (adjective) neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike | - |
| (adjective) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets when referring to color | - |
| (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: coolheaded, nerveless |
| (adjective) fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept | - |
| (adjective) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | Synonyms: all right, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay |
| (adjective) used of a quantity or amount (especially of money) for emphasis | - |
| coolheaded | (adjective) marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional | Synonyms: cool, nerveless |
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| cooperative | (adjective) done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, united |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: accommodative |
| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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| (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
| (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |
| coordinating | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinative |
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| coordinative | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinating |
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| copacetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copasetic, copesetic, copesettic |
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| copasetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copesetic, copesettic |
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| copesetic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesettic |
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| copesettic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesetic |
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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 |
| coplanar | (adjective) lying in the same plane | - |
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| coppery | (adjective) of something having the color of copper | Synonyms: copper colored |
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| copular | (adjective) of or relating to a copula | - |
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| copulative | (adjective) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
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| copulatory | (adjective) of or relating to coitus or copulation | Synonyms: coital |
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| copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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| coquettish | (adjective) like a coquette | Synonyms: flirtatious |
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| coral | (adjective) of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color | - |
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| corbelled | (adjective) having a corbel | - |
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| cordate | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordiform, heart-shaped |
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| corded | (adjective) of textiles; having parallel raised lines | Synonyms: twilled |
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| cordial | (adjective) diffusing warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: affable, amiable, genial |
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| (adjective) politely warm and friendly | - |
| (adjective) sincerely or intensely felt | - |
| cordiform | (adjective) (of a leaf) shaped like a heart | Synonyms: cordate, heart-shaped |
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| cordless | (adjective) not having a cord | - |
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| coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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| coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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| coriaceous | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: leathered, leatherlike, leathery |
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| corinthian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture | - |
| corked | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corky |
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| corking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| corky | (adjective) (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin | Synonyms: corked |
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| cormose | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormous |
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| cormous | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormose |
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| corneal | (adjective) of or related to the cornea | - |
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| corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
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| corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
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| cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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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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| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| corporal | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporeal, somatic |
| 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 |
| corporatist | (adjective) of or relating to corporatism | - |
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| corporeal | (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: material |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporal, somatic |
| corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| correct | (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: right |
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| (adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: right |
| correctable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: amendable |
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| (adjective) capable of being returned to the original condition; not necessarily permanent | - |
| corrected | (adjective) having something undesirable neutralized | - |
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