| correctional | (adjective) concerned with or providing correction | - |
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| corrective | (adjective) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition | - |
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| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary |
| correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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| correlated | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlative |
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| correlational | (adjective) relating to or employing correlation | - |
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| correlative | (adjective) expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation | - |
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| (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlated |
| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| corrigible | (adjective) capable of being corrected or set right | - |
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| corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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| corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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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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| corroded | (adjective) eaten away as by acid or oxidation | - |
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| corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
| corrugated | (adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges | - |
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| corrupt | (adjective) lacking in integrity | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: crooked |
| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupted |
| (adjective) touched by rot or decay | Synonyms: tainted |
| corrupted | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: debased, vitiated |
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| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupt |
| corruptible | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| corrupting | (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: contaminating |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: degrading |
| (adjective) seducing into corrupt practices | - |
| corruptive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: perversive, pestiferous |
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| cortical | (adjective) of or relating to a cortex | - |
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| corticifugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoefferent, corticofugal |
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| corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| corticofugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticoefferent |
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| coruscant | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| corvine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a crow | - |
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| corymbose | (adjective) resembling a corymb | - |
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| coseismal | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismic |
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| coseismic | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismal |
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| cosher | (adjective) conforming to Jewish dietary laws | Synonyms: kosher |
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| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| cosmetic | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: enhancive |
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| (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: decorative, ornamental |
| cosmic | (adjective) of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe | - |
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| (adjective) inconceivably extended in space or time | - |
| cosmogenic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogonic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmogonical | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmologic, cosmological |
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| cosmologic | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmological |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmological |
| cosmological | (adjective) pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe | Synonyms: cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality | Synonyms: cosmologic |
| cosmopolitan | (adjective) growing or occurring in many parts of the world | Synonyms: widely distributed |
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| (adjective) composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests | - |
| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
| costal | (adjective) of or relating to or near a rib | - |
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| costate | (adjective) having ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: ribbed |
| costive | (adjective) retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating | - |
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| costless | (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, free, gratis, gratuitous |
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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 |
| costumed | (adjective) dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class | - |
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| 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 |
| coterminous | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: coextensive, conterminous |
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| cottony | (adjective) resembling cotton; as soft as cotton | - |
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| cotyloid | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: acetabular, cotyloidal |
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| cotyloidal | (adjective) of the cup-shaped socket that receives the head of the thigh bone | Synonyms: acetabular, cotyloid |
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| couchant | (adjective) lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward | - |
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| countable | (adjective) that can be counted | Synonyms: denumerable, enumerable, numerable |
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| counter | (adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: antagonistic |
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| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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| counterclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, contraclockwise |
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| counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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| counterfeit | (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: imitative |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| countertenor | (adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: alto |
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| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| countless | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| countrified | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countryfied, rustic |
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| countryfied | (adjective) characteristic of rural life | Synonyms: countrified, rustic |
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| countrywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a country or nation | Synonyms: nationwide |
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| countywide | (adjective) occurring or extending throughout a county | - |
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| coupled | (adjective) connected by a link, as railway cars or trailer trucks | Synonyms: joined, linked |
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| (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, conjugated |
| 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 |
| 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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| couth | (adjective) (used facetiously) refined and well-mannered | - |
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| couthie | (adjective) (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial | Synonyms: couthy |
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| couthy | (adjective) (chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial | Synonyms: couthie |
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| covalent | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by covalence | - |
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| covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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| covered | (adjective) overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form | - |
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| covert | (adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | - |
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| (adjective) (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband | - |
| coveted | (adjective) much wanted | Synonyms: in demand, sought-after, sought after |
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| 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 |
| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| cowled | (adjective) having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood | - |
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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 |