| 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 |