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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chive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chives, cive, schnittlaugh |
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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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cive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, schnittlaugh |
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coercive | (adjective) serving or intended to coerce | - |
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coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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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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cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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(adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
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 | - |
collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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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 |
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 | - |
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 |
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 |
complaintive | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaining |
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comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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(adjective) broad in scope | - |
(noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
compulsive | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: determined, driven |
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(adjective) caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion | - |
(noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
conceive | (verb) become pregnant; undergo conception | - |
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(verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, consider, think |
(verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate |
conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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conciliative | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliatory |
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conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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conducive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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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 |
connive | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: intrigue, scheme |
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(verb) encourage or assent to illegally or criminally | - |
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 |
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 |
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 | - |
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 | - |
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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contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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(adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
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 | - |
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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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 | - |
(noun) a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali) | - |
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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counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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counteroffensive | (noun) a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force | - |
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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 | - |
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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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 |
cursive | (adjective) having successive letters joined together | - |
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(noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
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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deceive | (verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: betray, lead astray |
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(verb) be false to; be dishonest with | Synonyms: cozen, delude, lead on |
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 |
decisive | (adjective) determining or having the power to determine an outcome | - |
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(adjective) characterized by decision and firmness | - |
(adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: critical |
(adjective) unmistakable | - |
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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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 |
defensive | (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack | - |
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(adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
(noun) an attitude of defensiveness | Synonyms: defensive attitude |
definitive | (adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: determinate |
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(adjective) clearly defined or formulated | Synonyms: unequivocal |
(adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: authoritative |
deflective | (adjective) capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) | Synonyms: refractive |
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degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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(adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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delineative | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: depictive |
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delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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(adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
(noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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denotative | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotive |
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(adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: explicit |
denotive | (adjective) having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming | Synonyms: denotative |
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