| cursed | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: curst |
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| (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved |
| cursedly | (adverb) in a damnable manner | Synonyms: damnably, damned |
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| 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 |
| cursively | (adverb) in a cursive manner | - |
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| cursor | (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: pointer |
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| cursorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for running | - |
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| cursorily | (adverb) without taking pains | Synonyms: quickly |
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| cursory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial |
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| curst | (adjective) deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | Synonyms: cursed |
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| curt | (adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short | Synonyms: crisp, laconic, terse |
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| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, short |
| curtail | (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, cut back, restrict |
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| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: clip, cut short |
| curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
| (noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
| curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
| (verb) provide with drapery | - |
| curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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| curtainless | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: uncurtained |
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| curtal | (adjective) (archaic) docked | - |
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| curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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| curtly | (adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: short, shortly |
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| curtness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, gruffness, shortness |
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| curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsy |
| curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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| (verb) make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect | Synonyms: bob |
| (verb) bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting | Synonyms: curtsey |
| curvaceous | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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| curvaceously | (adverb) in a curvaceous way | Synonyms: buxomly |
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| curvaceousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: shapeliness, voluptuousness |
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| curvature | (noun) the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curve |
| (noun) (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal | - |
| curve | (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: bender, breaking ball, curve ball |
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| (noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: bend |
| (noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curvature |
| (noun) a line on a graph representing data | - |
| (noun) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes | Synonyms: curved shape |
| (verb) form a curl, curve, or kink | Synonyms: curl, kink |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, arch |
| (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: crook |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: twist, wind |
| curved | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curving |
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| curvet | (noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: vaulting |
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| (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
| curvey | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvy |
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| curvilineal | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilinear |
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| curvilinear | (adjective) characterized by or following a curved line | Synonyms: curvilineal |
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| curving | (adjective) having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend | Synonyms: curved |
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| curvy | (adjective) having curves | Synonyms: curvey |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| cuscus | (noun) woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia | - |
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| cushat | (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, ringdove, wood pigeon |
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| cushaw | (noun) globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind | - |
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| (noun) plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds | Synonyms: Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta |
| cushion | (noun) a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc. | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: shock, shock absorber |
| (noun) the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle | - |
| (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
| cushioned | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushiony, padded |
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| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| cushiony | (adjective) softened by the addition of cushions or padding | Synonyms: cushioned, padded |
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| cushy | (adjective) not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship | Synonyms: easygoing, soft |
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| cusk | (noun) large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod | Synonyms: Brosme brosme, torsk |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
| (noun) the lean flesh of a cod-like fish of North Atlantic waters | - |
| cusp | (noun) point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch) | - |
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| (noun) small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth | - |
| (noun) a thin triangular flap of a heart valve | Synonyms: leaflet |
| cuspate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cusped | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspid | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
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| cuspidal | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated |
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| cuspidate | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidated |
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| cuspidated | (adjective) having cusps or points | Synonyms: cuspate, cuspated, cusped, cuspidal, cuspidate |
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| cuspidation | (noun) a decoration using cusps | - |
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| cuspidor | (noun) a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | Synonyms: spittoon |
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| cuss | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: blighter, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, imprecate, swear |
| cussed | (adjective) stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | Synonyms: obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant |
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| cussedly | (adverb) in a stubborn unregenerate manner | Synonyms: mulishly, obdurately, obstinately, pig-headedly, stubbornly |
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| cussedness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: orneriness |
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| custard | (noun) sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen | - |
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| custodial | (adjective) providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | Synonyms: tutelar, tutelary |
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| custodian | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: keeper, steward |
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| custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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| custody | (noun) holding by the police | - |
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| (noun) (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child | Synonyms: hands |
| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: detainment, detention, hold |
| custom | (adjective) made according to the specifications of an individual | Synonyms: custom-made |
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| (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: usage, usance |
| (noun) habitual patronage | - |
| (noun) a specific practice of long standing | Synonyms: tradition |
| (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: customs, customs duty, impost |
| customarily | (adverb) by custom; according to common practice | - |
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| customariness | (noun) The state or quality of agreeing with, or being established by, custom or common usage. | - |
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| customary | (adjective) in accordance with convention or custom | - |
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| (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, habitual, wonted |
| customer | (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: client |
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| customhouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customshouse |
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| customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
| customize | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customise |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customise, tailor-make |
| customs | (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: custom, customs duty, impost |
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| customshouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customhouse |
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| cut | (adjective) separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument | - |
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| (adjective) (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit | - |
| (adjective) fashioned or shaped by cutting | - |
| (adjective) (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine | Synonyms: mown |
| (adjective) made neat and tidy by trimming | Synonyms: trimmed |
| (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: shortened |
| (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: emasculated, gelded |
| (adjective) (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply | Synonyms: slashed |
| (adjective) mixed with water | Synonyms: thinned, weakened |
| (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cutting, cutting off |
| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a refusal to recognize someone you know | Synonyms: cold shoulder, snub |
| (noun) the act of reducing the amount or number | - |
| (noun) an unexcused absence from class | - |
| (noun) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball | Synonyms: baseball swing, swing |
| (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: undercut |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation | Synonyms: gash |
| (noun) a canal made by erosion or excavation | - |
| (noun) the style in which a garment is cut | - |
| (noun) (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next | - |
| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: deletion, excision |
| (noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: stinger |
| (noun) a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc | Synonyms: track |
| (noun) a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass | Synonyms: cut of meat |
| (noun) a share of the profits | - |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: gash, slash, slice |
| (noun) a step on some scale | - |
| (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: geld |
| (verb) have grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) cease, stop | Synonyms: cut off |
| (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: edit, edit out |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) have a reducing effect | - |
| (verb) shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of | - |
| (verb) dissolve by breaking down the fat of | - |
| (verb) make out and issue | Synonyms: issue, make out, write out |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub |
| (verb) separate with or as if with an instrument | - |
| (verb) divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult | - |
| (verb) hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch | Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out |
| (verb) make an incision or separation | - |
| (verb) allow incision or separation | - |
| (verb) function as a cutting instrument | - |
| (verb) fell by sawing; hew | - |
| (verb) penetrate injuriously | - |
| (verb) reap or harvest | - |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: tailor |
| (verb) form by probing, penetrating, or digging | - |
| (verb) record a performance on (a medium) | - |
| (verb) make a recording of | - |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: burn |
| (verb) form or shape by cutting or incising | - |
| (verb) perform or carry out | - |
| (verb) stop filming | - |
| (verb) make an abrupt change of image or sound | - |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) pass through or across | - |
| (verb) pass directly and often in haste | - |
| (verb) move (one's fist) | - |
| (verb) give the appearance or impression of | - |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) discharge from a group | - |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: skip |
| cutaneal | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneous, dermal |
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| cutaneous | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, dermal |
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| cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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| (noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
| cutback | (noun) a reduction in quantity or rate | - |
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| cutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: kutch |
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| cute | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: precious |
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| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cunning |
| cutely | (adverb) in an attractive manner | Synonyms: cunningly |
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| cuteness | (noun) the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | Synonyms: prettiness |
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| cuticle | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, shell, shield |
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| (noun) the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates | Synonyms: epidermis |
| (noun) the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail | - |
| cuticula | (noun) the outer body wall of an insect | - |
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| cuticular | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: dermal, epidermal, epidermic |
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| cutin | (noun) (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids | - |
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| cutinize | (verb) convert into cutin | - |
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| cutis | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: skin, tegument |
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| cutlas | (noun) a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors | Synonyms: cutlass |
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| cutlass | (noun) a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors | Synonyms: cutlas |
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| cutlassfish | (noun) long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel | Synonyms: frost fish, hairtail |
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| cutler | (noun) a dealer in cutlery | - |
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| cutlery | (noun) tableware implements for cutting and eating food | Synonyms: eating utensil |
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| (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutter, cutting tool |
| cutlet | (noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: escallop, scallop, scollop |
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| cutoff | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, shortcut |
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| (noun) a device that terminates the flow in a pipe | - |
| (noun) a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated | - |
| cutout | (noun) a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out | - |
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| (noun) a photograph from which the background has been cut away | - |
| (noun) a switch that interrupts an electric circuit in the event of an overload | - |
| cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
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| cuttable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: chewable |
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| cutter | (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool |
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| (noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender |
| (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop | - |
| (noun) someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) | - |
| (noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: carver |
| (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: stonecutter |
| cutthroat | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: bowelless, fierce |
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| (noun) someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | - |
| cutting | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, raw |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: edged, stinging |
| (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
| (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| (noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
| cuttingly | (adverb) in an intentionally unkind way | - |
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