crabbed | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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crabby | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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crabwise | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: sideways |
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crack | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
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crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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cracked | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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(adjective) of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide | Synonyms: alligatored |
(adjective) used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure | Synonyms: chapped, roughened |
crackers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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crackle | (adjective) having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware | - |
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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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cragfast | (adjective) stranded on or as if on a crag | - |
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cragged | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: craggy, hilly, mountainous |
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craggy | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, hilly, mountainous |
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cramped | (adjective) constricted in size | - |
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cranial | (adjective) of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain | - |
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craniometric | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometrical |
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craniometrical | (adjective) of or relating to craniometry | Synonyms: craniometric |
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crank | (adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: cranky, tender, tippy |
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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 |
crannied | (adjective) having small chinks or crannies (especially in or between rocks or stones) | - |
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crappy | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
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crapulent | (adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulous |
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crapulous | (adjective) given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking | - |
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(adjective) suffering from excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: crapulent |
crashing | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, flaming, fucking |
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crass | (adjective) (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility | - |
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craved | (adjective) wanted intensely | Synonyms: desired |
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craven | (adjective) lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful | Synonyms: recreant |
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crazed | (adjective) driven insane | Synonyms: deranged, half-crazed |
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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 | - |
creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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(adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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(adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
(adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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(adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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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 | - |
crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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cresson | (adjective) of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green | Synonyms: cress green, watercress |
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crested | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: plumed |
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(adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: topknotted, tufted |
(adjective) bearing an heraldic device | - |
crestfallen | (adjective) brought low in spirit | Synonyms: chapfallen, chopfallen, deflated |
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cretaceous | (adjective) abounding in chalk | - |
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cretinous | (adjective) afflicted with cretinism | - |
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criminal | (adjective) guilty of crime or serious offense | - |
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(adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: felonious |
(adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
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(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, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
(adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
cringey | (adjective) embarrassing such that it would cause cringing | - |
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cringing | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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crinkled | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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crinoid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the class Crinoidea | - |
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crippled | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
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crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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crisp | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy |
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(adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: curt, laconic, terse |
(adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
(adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: sharp |
(adjective) pleasingly firm and fresh | - |
(adjective) tender and brittle | Synonyms: crispy |
crispate | (adjective) wavy or notched and curled very irregularly | - |
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crispy | (adjective) tender and brittle | Synonyms: crisp |
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crisscross | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscrossed |
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crisscrossed | (adjective) marked with crossing lines | Synonyms: crisscross |
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criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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critical | (adjective) marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws | - |
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(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment | - |
(adjective) being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency | - |
(adjective) at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction | - |
(adjective) of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism | - |
(adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: decisive |
(adjective) urgently needed; absolutely necessary | Synonyms: vital |
croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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crocked | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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crocketed | (adjective) (of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) | - |
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cromulent | (adjective) Legitimate or valid (frequently used ironically) | - |
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crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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(adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
(adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
(adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
cropped | (adjective) (of land or soil) used for growing crops | - |
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cross | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: thwartwise, transversal, transverse |
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(adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
crossbred | (adjective) bred from parents of different varieties or species | - |
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crossed | (adjective) placed crosswise | - |
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(adjective) (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it | - |
crosshatched | (adjective) shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines | Synonyms: hatched |
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crosstown | (adjective) going or extending across a town or city | Synonyms: cross-town |
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crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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(adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
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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crowded | (adjective) overfilled or compacted or concentrated | - |
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crowing | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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crowned | (adjective) provided with or as if with a crown or a crown as specified; often used in combination | - |
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(adjective) having an (artificial) crown on a tooth | - |
(adjective) crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory | Synonyms: laureled, laurelled |
crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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(adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
crownless | (adjective) not (especially not yet) provided with a crown | Synonyms: uncrowned |
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crucial | (adjective) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis | Synonyms: important |
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(adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, essential, of the essence |
(adjective) having crucial relevance | - |
cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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cruciferous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae | - |
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