| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| denunciative | (adjective) containing warning of punishment | Synonyms: comminatory, denunciatory |
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| depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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| deprecative | (adjective) given to expressing disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
| depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |
| derivative | (adjective) resulting from or employing derivation | - |
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| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
| derogative | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogatory, disparaging |
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| descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
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| (adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| destructive | (adjective) causing destruction or much damage | - |
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| detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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| (noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
| determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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| (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
| detonative | (adjective) exploding almost instantaneously | - |
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| detractive | (adjective) causing to decrease in importance or value | - |
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| digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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| (noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
| diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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| (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
| directive | (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, guiding |
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| (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
| discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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| (adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| disjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to divide or separate | - |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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| disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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| dissimulative | (adjective) concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive | - |
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| dissociative | (adjective) tending to produce dissociation | - |
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| distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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| (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| educative | (adjective) resulting in education | - |
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| effective | (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effectual, efficacious |
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| (adjective) existing in fact; not theoretical; real | - |
| (adjective) able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively | Synonyms: efficient |
| (adjective) works well as a means or remedy | - |
| (adjective) ready for service | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: good, in effect, in force |
| ejective | (noun) a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis. | Synonyms: ejective consonant |
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| elective | (adjective) subject to popular election | Synonyms: elected |
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| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: facultative |
| (noun) a course that the student can select from among alternatives | Synonyms: elective course |
| electromotive | (adjective) concerned with or producing electric current | - |
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| electronegative | (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: negative, negatively charged |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| elucidative | (adjective) that makes clear | Synonyms: clarifying |
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| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emotive | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affectional, affective |
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| eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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| (adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
| (adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
| evaluative | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: appraising |
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| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| evocative | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant |
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| excitative | (adjective) (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate | Synonyms: excitant, excitatory |
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