| crankiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
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| crankshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft driven by (or driving) a crank | - |
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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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| cranny | (noun) a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall) | - |
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| (noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, crevice, fissure |
| crap | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: dirt, poop, shit, shite, turd |
| (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, defecate, make, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
| crapaud | (noun) large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog | Synonyms: Leptodactylus pentadactylus, South American bullfrog |
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| crape | (noun) a soft thin light fabric with a crinkled surface | Synonyms: crepe |
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| (noun) small very thin pancake | Synonyms: crepe, French pancake |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crimp, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
| (verb) cover or drape with crape | Synonyms: crepe |
| crapette | (noun) solitaire with two players using separate packs | Synonyms: Russian bank |
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| crapper | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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| crappie | (noun) small sunfishes of central United States rivers | - |
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| (noun) small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers | - |
| crappy | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky |
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| craps | (noun) a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice | - |
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| (noun) expressions used when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot | Synonyms: snake eyes |
| crapshoot | (noun) playing craps | Synonyms: crap game, crap shooting |
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| (noun) a risky and uncertain venture | - |
| crapshooter | (noun) a gambler who plays the game of craps | - |
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| crapulence | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, drink, drinking, drunkenness |
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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 |
| crash | (noun) the act of colliding with something | Synonyms: smash |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: wreck |
| (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clangour, clank, clash |
| (noun) a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) | Synonyms: collapse |
| (noun) (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative | - |
| (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: doss, doss down |
| (verb) stop operating | Synonyms: go down |
| (verb) undergo a sudden and severe downturn | - |
| (verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: ram |
| (verb) break violently or noisily; smash | Synonyms: break apart, break up |
| (verb) cause to crash | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: dash |
| (verb) enter uninvited; informal | Synonyms: barge in, gate-crash |
| (verb) move with, or as if with, a crashing noise | - |
| (verb) fall or come down violently | - |
| (verb) move violently as through a barrier | - |
| (verb) make a sudden loud sound | - |
| (verb) occupy, usually uninvited | - |
| crasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: gatecrasher, unwelcome guest |
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| 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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| crassitude | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassness |
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| crassness | (noun) the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement | Synonyms: crassitude |
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| crate | (noun) a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crateful |
| (verb) put into a crate; as for protection | - |
| crateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crate |
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| crater | (noun) a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb | - |
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| (noun) a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano | Synonyms: volcanic crater |
| craton | (noun) the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian | - |
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| craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
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| cravat | (noun) neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front | - |
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| crave | (verb) plead or ask for earnestly | - |
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| (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: hunger, lust, starve, thirst |
| 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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| (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: poltroon, recreant |
| cravenness | (noun) meanspirited cowardice | - |
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| craving | (noun) an intense desire for some particular thing | - |
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| craw | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: crop |
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| crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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| crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| (verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: creep |
| (verb) swim by doing the crawl | - |
| (verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, creep, cringe, fawn, grovel |
| (verb) be full of | - |
| (verb) feel as if crawling with insects | - |
| crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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| (noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
| (noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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| crayer | (noun) a two- or three-masted sailing vessel formerly used for transporting cargo in the Baltic Sea. | - |
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| crayfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crawfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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| (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish |
| (noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse |
| (noun) warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | Synonyms: langouste, rock lobster, spiny lobster |
| crayon | (noun) writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing | Synonyms: wax crayon |
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| (verb) write, draw, or trace with a crayon | - |
| craze | (noun) a fine crack in a glaze or other surface | - |
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| (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: cult, fad, furor, furore, rage |
| (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria |
| (verb) develop a fine network of cracks | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: madden |
| crazed | (adjective) driven insane | Synonyms: deranged, half-crazed |
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| crazily | (adverb) in an insane manner | Synonyms: dementedly, insanely, madly |
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| craziness | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: folly, foolishness, madness |
| (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: daftness, flakiness |
| 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 | - |
| (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: looney, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
| crazyweed | (noun) any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock | Synonyms: crazy weed, locoweed |
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| creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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| 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 |
| cream | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, ointment |
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| (noun) the part of milk containing the butterfat | - |
| (noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: pick |
| (verb) add cream to one's coffee, for example | - |
| (verb) make creamy by beating | - |
| (verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream off, skim, skim off |
| (verb) put on cream, as on one's face or body | - |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash |
| creamcups | (noun) California plant with small pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Platystemon californicus |
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| creamer | (noun) a small pitcher for serving cream | Synonyms: cream pitcher |
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| creamery | (noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
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| creaminess | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: soupiness |
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| creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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| (verb) The act of ejaculating inside another person | - |
| creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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| (adjective) thick like cream | - |
| crease | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: creese, kris |
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| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
| 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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| creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| create | (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: make |
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| (verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity | - |
| (verb) bring into existence | - |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: make, produce |
| (verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) invest with a new title, office, or rank | - |
| creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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| creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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| creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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| (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
| (noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
| (noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
| creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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| creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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| (adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
| creatively | (adverb) in a creative manner | - |
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| creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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| creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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| creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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| creature | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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| (noun) a living being | Synonyms: wight |
| (noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: puppet, tool |
| creche | (noun) a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for | Synonyms: foundling hospital |
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| (noun) a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem | - |
| cred | (noun) credibility among young fashionable urban individuals | Synonyms: street cred, street credibility |
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| credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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| credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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| (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
| credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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| credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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| credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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| credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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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 | - |
| credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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| credibly | (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: believably, plausibly, probably |
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| credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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| (noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
| (noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
| (noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
| (noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
| (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
| (noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
| (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
| (noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
| (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
| (verb) give someone credit for something | - |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
| (verb) enter as credit | - |
| creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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| creditably | (adverb) to a tolerably worthy extent | Synonyms: respectably |
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| credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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| creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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| credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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| creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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| creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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