| benedictive | (adjective) expressing benediction | Synonyms: benedictory |
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| calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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| capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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| captive | (adjective) giving or marked by complete attention to | Synonyms: absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, rapt, wrapped |
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| (adjective) being in captivity | Synonyms: confined, imprisoned, jailed |
| (noun) an animal that is confined | - |
| (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: prisoner |
| (noun) a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion | - |
| carminative | (adjective) relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) | Synonyms: flatus-relieving |
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| (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
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| chemisorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemosorptive |
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| chemoreceptive | (adjective) of or relating to chemoreceptors | - |
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| chemosorptive | (adjective) having the capacity to adsorb by chemical as contrasted with physical forces | Synonyms: chemisorptive |
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| chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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| circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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| cogitative | (adjective) of or relating to having capacities for cogitation | - |
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| (adjective) given to cogitation | - |
| cognitive | (adjective) of or being or relating to or involving cognition | - |
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| cognitively | (adverb) with regard to cognition | - |
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| collaborative | (adjective) accomplished by collaboration | - |
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| collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
| (adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
| (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
| collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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| combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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| (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
| (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
| combatively | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: scrappily |
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| combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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| combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
| combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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| commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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| (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
| commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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| communicative | (adjective) able or tending to communicate | Synonyms: communicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to communication | - |
| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| commutative | (adjective) (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a" | - |
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| comparative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) relating to or based on or involving comparison | - |
| (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
| comparatively | (adverb) in a relative manner; by comparison to something else | Synonyms: relatively |
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| competitive | (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness | Synonyms: competitory |
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| (adjective) showing a fighting disposition | Synonyms: militant |
| (adjective) subscribing to capitalistic competition | Synonyms: free-enterprise, private-enterprise |
| competitively | (adverb) in competition | - |
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| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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| conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| conciliative | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliatory |
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| conductive | (adjective) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity | - |
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| confederative | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederate |
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| confirmative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| confutative | (adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, questionable, refutable |
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| congestive | (adjective) relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid | - |
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| conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
| connective | (adjective) connecting or tending to connect | - |
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| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| connotative | (adjective) having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit | - |
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| consecutive | (adjective) successive (without a break) | Synonyms: straight |
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| (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: sequent, sequential, serial, successive |
| (adjective) one after the other | Synonyms: back-to-back |
| (adverb) in a sequential manner | Synonyms: sequentially |
| consecutively | (adverb) in a consecutive manner | - |
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| conservative | (adjective) resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion | - |
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| (adjective) unimaginatively conventional | Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down |
| (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic |
| (adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: cautious |
| (adjective) having social or political views favoring conservatism | - |
| (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
| conservatively | (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: cautiously, guardedly |
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| consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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| (adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
| conspirative | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspiratorial |
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| constitutive | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, organic |
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| constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
| constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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| (adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
| constructively | (adverb) in a constructive manner | - |
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| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| consultative | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultatory, consultive |
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| consultive | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultatory |
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| consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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| (adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
| contaminative | (adjective) making impure by contact or mixing | - |
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| contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
| contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
| 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 | - |
| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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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 |
| (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
| (noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
| cooperatively | (adverb) in close cooperation | Synonyms: hand and glove, hand in glove |
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| cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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| coordinative | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinating |
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| copulative | (adjective) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
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| (noun) an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence | Synonyms: copula, linking verb |
| 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 |
| (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
| correlative | (adjective) expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation | - |
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| (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlated |
| (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
| corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corruptive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: perversive, pestiferous |
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| costive | (adjective) retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating | - |
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| counteractive | (adjective) opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action | - |
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| counteractively | (adverb) in a counteractive manner | - |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterintuitively | (adverb) in a counterintuitive manner | - |
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| counterproductive | (adjective) tending to hinder the achievement of a goal | - |
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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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| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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| cumulative | (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: accumulative |
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| cumulatively | (adverb) in a cumulative manner | - |
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| curative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| debilitative | (adjective) causing debilitation | Synonyms: enervating, enfeebling, weakening |
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| deceptive | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: misleading |
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| (adjective) causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true | Synonyms: delusory |
| deceptively | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceivingly, misleadingly |
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| deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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| (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
| (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
| decorative | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, ornamental |
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| decoratively | (adverb) in a decorative manner | - |
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| decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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| deductive | (adjective) involving inferences from general principles | - |
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| (adjective) relating to logical deduction | - |
| defective | (adjective) markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) having a defect | Synonyms: faulty |
| (adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: bad |
| defectively | (adverb) in a defective manner | - |
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| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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