| con | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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| (noun) an argument opposed to a proposal | - |
| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
| (adverb) in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc. | - |
| (verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: learn, memorise, memorize |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| conacaste | (noun) tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber | Synonyms: elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa |
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| concatenate | (verb) add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series | - |
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| (verb) combine two strings to form a single one | - |
| concatenation | (noun) the act of linking together as in a series or chain | - |
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| (noun) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | Synonyms: chain |
| (noun) the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc | - |
| (noun) the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series | - |
| concave | (adjective) curving inward | - |
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| concavely | (adverb) in a concave way | - |
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| concaveness | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concavity |
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| concavity | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concaveness |
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| (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, incurvation, incurvature |
| conceal | (verb) hold back; keep from being perceived by others | Synonyms: hold back, hold in |
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| (verb) prevent from being seen or discovered | Synonyms: hide |
| concealed | (adjective) hidden on any grounds for any motive | - |
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| (adjective) not accessible to view | Synonyms: hidden, out of sight |
| concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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| (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
| concealment | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, hiding |
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| (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: cover, covert, screen |
| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: privacy, privateness, secrecy |
| concede | (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: confess, profess |
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| (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: grant, yield |
| (verb) acknowledge defeat | - |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, grant, yield |
| conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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| conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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| (noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
| (noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
| (noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
| (noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
| conceited | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | Synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, swollen, vain |
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| conceitedly | (adverb) with conceit; in a conceited manner | Synonyms: self-conceitedly |
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| conceitedness | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceit, vanity |
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| conceivability | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivableness |
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| conceivable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: imaginable |
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| conceivableness | (noun) the state of being conceivable | Synonyms: conceivability |
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| conceivably | (adverb) within the realm of possibility | - |
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| 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 |
| conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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| concenter | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concentre, focalise, focalize, focus |
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| concentrate | (noun) a concentrated example of something | - |
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| (noun) a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water | - |
| (noun) the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore | Synonyms: dressed ore |
| (verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, reduce |
| (verb) make denser, stronger, or purer | - |
| (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, centralize |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce |
| (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: condense, digest |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: condense, contract |
| (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet |
| (verb) draw together or meet in one common center | - |
| concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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| (adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) intensely focused | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
| concentration | (noun) strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material | - |
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| (noun) bringing together military forces | - |
| (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness |
| (noun) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion |
| (noun) increase in density | - |
| concentre | (verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, focalise, focalize, focus |
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| concentric | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentrical, homocentric |
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| concentrical | (adjective) having a common center | Synonyms: concentric, homocentric |
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| concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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| concept | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: conception, construct |
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| conception | (noun) the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon | - |
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| (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, construct |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: design, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: creation |
| conceptional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: ideational, notional |
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| conceptive | (adjective) capable of conceiving | Synonyms: impregnable |
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| conceptual | (adjective) being or characterized by concepts or their formation | - |
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| conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
| conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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| conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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| conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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| conceptuality | (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| conceptualization | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptuality |
| conceptualize | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualise, gestate |
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| conceptually | (adverb) in a conceptual manner | - |
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| conceptus | (noun) an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life | Synonyms: embryo, fertilized egg |
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| concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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| (noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
| (noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
| (noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
| (noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry |
| concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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| (adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
| (adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
| concernedly | (adverb) in a manner showing concern | - |
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| concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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| (verb) settle by agreement | - |
| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| concerted | (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
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| concertina | (noun) free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds | - |
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| (noun) coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle | - |
| (verb) collapse like a concertina | - |
| concertinist | (noun) a person who plays the concertina | - |
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| concertise | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertize |
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| concertize | (verb) give concerts; perform in concerts | Synonyms: concertise |
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| concerto | (noun) a composition for orchestra and a soloist | - |
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| concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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| (noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
| (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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| concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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| conch | (noun) any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip | - |
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| concha | (noun) (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape | - |
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| conchfish | (noun) found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch | Synonyms: Astropogon stellatus |
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| conchoid | (noun) Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts). | - |
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| conchologist | (noun) a collector and student of mollusc shells | - |
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| conchology | (noun) the collection and study of mollusc shells | Synonyms: shell collecting |
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| concierge | (noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter | - |
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| conciliable | (adjective) capable of being pacified | Synonyms: appeasable |
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| conciliate | (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile |
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| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: make up, patch up, reconcile, settle |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| conciliation | (noun) the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | Synonyms: placation, propitiation |
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| (noun) any of various forms of mediation whereby disputes may be settled short of arbitration | - |
| (noun) the state of manifesting goodwill and cooperation after being reconciled | - |
| conciliative | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliatory |
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| conciliator | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler |
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| conciliatory | (adjective) intended to placate | Synonyms: conciliative |
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| (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: compromising, flexible |
| concise | (adjective) expressing much in few words | - |
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| concisely | (adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: briefly, in brief, in short, shortly |
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| conciseness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: concision, pithiness, succinctness |
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| concision | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, pithiness, succinctness |
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| conclave | (noun) a confidential or secret meeting | - |
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| conclude | (verb) decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion | Synonyms: reason, reason out |
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| (verb) bring to a close | - |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: resolve |
| (verb) reach agreement on | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: close |
| concluded | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, ended, over, terminated |
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| concluding | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: final, last, terminal |
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| conclusion | (noun) the act of ending something | Synonyms: ending, termination |
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| (noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: decision, determination |
| (noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: decision, determination |
| (noun) an intuitive assumption | - |
| (noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, end, ending |
| (noun) the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) | Synonyms: ratiocination |
| (noun) a final settlement | - |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: ending, finish |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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| conclusively | (adverb) in a conclusive way | Synonyms: once and for all |
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| conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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| concoct | (verb) make a concoction (of) by mixing | - |
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| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: dream up, hatch, think of, think up |
| (verb) prepare or cook by mixing ingredients | Synonyms: cook up |
| (verb) invent | Synonyms: trump up |
| concoction | (noun) the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components | Synonyms: confection |
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| (noun) the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose | - |
| (noun) an occurrence of an unusual mixture | - |
| (noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: intermixture, mixture |
| concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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| concomitant | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, collateral, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
| concord | (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concordance, harmony |
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| (noun) the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concordance, harmony |
| (verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concur, hold |
| (verb) arrange the words of a text so as to create a concordance | - |
| (verb) arrange by concord or agreement | - |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| concordance | (noun) an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts | - |
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| (noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| (noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, harmony |
| concordant | (adjective) being of the same opinion | Synonyms: concurring |
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| (adjective) in keeping | Synonyms: accordant, agreeable, conformable, consonant |
| concordat | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, covenant |
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| concourse | (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: confluence |
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| (noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk | - |
| (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: multitude, throng |
| concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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| (adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
| (noun) a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass; coalesce | - |
| (verb) cover with cement | - |
| concretely | (adverb) in concrete terms | - |
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| concreteness | (noun) the quality of being concrete (not abstract) | - |
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| concretion | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification |
| (noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: calculus |
| (noun) the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys) | - |
| concretise | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretize |
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| concretism | (noun) a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms | Synonyms: concrete representation |
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