crack,v.break,chop,cleave,split,rift,snap.crack,a.(Colloq.)first-rate,excellent,fine,capital, first-class.cracked,a.(Colloq.)crotchety,eccentric,crazy.crackle,v.crepitate, decrepitate.--n.crepitation,crackling.crackling,a.crepitant.--n.crepitation, decrepitation,crackle.crack up.(Low)extol,laud,praise,cry up.cracksman,n.burglar.cradle,n.baby'sbed, trundle-bed; solen;cunabula.craft,n.dexterity,skill;trade, handicraft;guild;guile,cunning,subtlety, artfulness.craftiness,n.artfulness,guile,craft,cunning.craftsman,n.artificer,artisan,mechanic, skilledworkman.crafty,a.shrewd,artful,wily,tricky,cunning,sly,deceitful, Machiavelian.Antonyms:guileless,artless,undesigning.cragged,a.jagged,broken, craggy.cram,v.compress,crowd,squeeze,press,impact.cramp,v.restrain,confine,hinder,restrict,obstruct.cranium,n.skull.crank,n.winch, turning-handle;bend,turn,twist,crook,curve.cranky,a.(Colloq.)crotchety,capricious,unreasonable,cantankerous,cross,perverse, cross-grained, contumaciousunsteady.cranny,n.crevice,chink. Seecrack.crash,n.ruin,smash,failure, collapse.crass,a.coarse, unrefined,gross,crude.crave,v.long for, yearn for, hankerafter;beseech, entreat,implore.craven,a.cowardly.--n.coward.craving,n.longing,yearning,hankering, hungering; entreaty, supplication.crawler,n.creeper, reptile;pl.Reptilia, reptiles.crawling,a.creeping, reptile, reptant, reptatorial, reptatory.--n.creeping.craze,v.madden, derange, distract;confuse, disarrange.craze,n.craziness,distraction;fancy,freak,crotchet;mania,passion, infatuation.craziness,n.insanity, lunacy, dementia, delirium; monomania; megalomania; paranoia.crazy,a.demented, deranged,insane,delirious, dementate,mad,lunatic,distracted,frantic, crazed, crack-brained;rickety, decrepit,shaky, tottering,dilapidated; desirous, eager, infatuated.Antonyms:sane,rational.crazy person.madman,maniac,lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac; paranoiac; megalomaniac.cream,n.bestpart, quintessence; cremor; cosmetic.crease,n.ruck,wrinkle.creation,n.origination,making, invention; universe, cosmos,world.creative,a.demiurgic, inventive, cosmoplastic, omnific.creature,n.being.credence,n.belief,credit,acceptance.credit,n.belief,faith,confidence;repute, goodname,esteem,honor;influence, prestige;trust, tick.Antonyms:discredit,dishonor,unbelief.creditor,n.Associated words: bilk, subrogation.credulous,a.unsuspecting,gullible.Antonym: incredulous.creed,n.Associated-words: symbolics, symbolism Athanasian, Nicene, Apostles'.creek,n.brook,rivulet,race, runlet, streamlet, runnel, bourn,burn;cove, bight.creepers,n. pl.Reptilia.creephole,n.retreat;subterfuge, expedient, makeshiftexcuse.creeping,a.crawling, reptile, reptant;fawning, truckling,obsequious,sycophantic.creeping,n.reptation; formication.creepingly,adv.insidiously, cunningly.cremate,v.incremate, incinerate.cremation,n.incremation, incineration.Associated words: crematory, crematorium.crest,n.tuft;helmet;top,ridge,crown,summit; armorial bearings,device, cognizance.crested,a.cristate.crestfallen,a.dejected, discouraged, disheartened,downcast.crevice,n.cleft, fissure,rent,cranny,crack,chink.crew,n.assemblage, throng,gang,mob,band,crowd.crib,n.manger,rack;bin,bunker,box.crib,v.(Colloq.)appropriate, plagiarize,steal, purloin.cricket,n.Associated words: stridulate, stridulation, stridulator, stridulatory, stridulous.crime,n.felony,atrocity,outrage,enormity;offense,transgression,misdemeanor, malefaction, dereliction.Associated words: criminology, criminologist, criminality, recidivism, recidivist.criminal,a.felonious, flagitious.criminal,n.felon, malefactor,culprit; criminaloid.criminate,v.incriminate, implicate,accuse.crimination,n.incrimination.crimp,v.curl,crisp, frizz.crimpy,a.frizzly, crimped,wavy.crincum,n.(Colloq.)twist,turn,freak,caprice,fancy,whim.cringe,v.truckle,fawn,crouch.cringing,a.truckling,fawning,servile,obsequious,slavish.crinkle,v.curl,wrinkle.crinkly,a.wavy, wrinkly,kinky.cripple,v.maim,lame,disable; hough,hamstring.crippled,a.maimed,lame,disabled,deformed, halt.crisis,n.criticaljuncture; climacteric, emergency,strait, exigency.crisp,a.brittle, friable,short;crackling,lively,brisk.Antonyms:tenacious,tough,flexible.critic,n.censor, reviewer,adept,judge, inspector; caviler, carper, censurer; Zoilus.critical,a.discriminating,fastidious;carping,censorious,captious,caviling, zoilean;crucial, momentous,decisive,precarious, climacteric.criticism,n.critique,censure, animadversion,stricture,cavil.croak,v.forebode,decry,complain,grumble.croaker,n.grumbler, alarmist, decrier, pessimist.crock,n.jar,pot;soot,smut.crony,n.(Colloq.) bosomfriend, intimate,associate,chum.crook,n.bend,turn,curve,curvature, deflection; crosier; pothook;artifice,trick,subterfuge,ruse.crook,v.bend,curve, incurvate.crooked,a.twisted,bent,devious,deformed, tortuous, sinuous,winding, flexuous, curved, curvilinear,spiral, labyrinthial; distorted,awry,askew,wry;dishonest,fraudulent,unscrupulous,knavish.crookedness,n.tortuousness, tortuosity, sinuosity, incurvation,curvature,deformity, curvity, wryness, anfractuosity;dishonesty, improbity.crop,n.harvest,fruit, product, ingathering.crop,v.clip,lop,cut off;gather, reap,harvest, garner; browse, nibble.cross,n.crucifix, rood, gibbet; rebatedcross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottony.Associated words: crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform,crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignation.cross,n.hybrid,mongrel, limmer.cross,a.athwart, transverse, intersecting; adverse,baffling,contrary,perverse;petulant,peevish, cynical,surly,unamiable, inaffable,crabbed,crusty,captious,fractious,churlish, vixenish,querulous,fretful,choleric,touchy,waspish,morose,sullen, ill-natured, irascibleacrimonious,irritable; inverse, interchanged.cross,v.intersect; traverse; run counter to,thwart,baffle,frustrate,foil; intercross; interbreed, hybridize;cancel.crossbarred,a.cancellated.crossbars,n. pl.lattice, grille, cancelli.crossbeam,n.girder,stringer.crossbow,n.arbelest, arcubalist.crossbreed,n.hybrid,mongrel.crossbreeding,n.hybridization.crossbred,a.hybrid,mongrel.crosscut,v.intersect.cross-examination,n.cross-questioning, inquisition.cross-eye,n.strabismus, strabism.cross-fertilization,n.allogamy.crossgrained,a.intractable,contrary,perverse,refractory,froward,stubborn.crossing,n.hybridization.crossing,n.intersection, decussation;cancellation; traversing;junction; crosswalk; thwarting,frustration,contradiction,interference; consignation.crossness,n.petulance, peevishness, cynicism, unamiability, moroseness, irritability, asperity, ill-nature, inaffability, irascibility.crosswise,adv.across, transversely.crotch,n.fork,crotchet,angle.crotchet,n.whim,fancy,vagary,caprice,freak.crotchety,a.whimsical,fanciful, vagarious,capricious.crouch,v.squat,couch,stoop;cringe,fawn,truckle.croup,n.cynanche.crow,n.Associated words: caw, corvine, corviform, corvoid.crow,v.brag, exult, swagger,vaunt, gasconade,vapor.crowd,v.press, shove, jostle; compress,cram,cramp,squeeze, stow,impact;swarm, throng,troop;intrude.crowd,n.concourse,crush,posse,multitude,number,mass, throng,horde,host,troop,bevy,knot,assembly, confluence;populace,rabble,commonalty,mob, proletariat, riffraff, the masses, rabblerout, roughscuff.crowded,a.congested, serried, dense,compact.Antonyms: incompact,loose.crowding,n.congestion, compression.crown,n.diadem, coronet, corona; tiara;wreath, garland chaplet, coronal, laurel, bays;royalty,sovereignty;consummation, capsheaf,summit,top,crest,vertex, vortex; krone.Associated words: coronal, coronary.crown,v.consummate,complete.crowning,a.consummating, completing.crowning,n.coronation.crucial,a.cruciform, cross-shaped;severe,trying, ordealcrude,a.undeveloped, inelaborate,uncouth, inartistic,unfinished.cruel,a.pitiless,merciless,inhuman,unmerciful, fell,relentless,ruthless, truculent,brutal,unfeeling,severe,inexorable, incompassionate,implacable.cruelly,n.inhumanity, implacability,severity,atrocity, pitilessness.crumble,v.disintegrate,decay, molder.crumbly,a.friable.crumple,v.rumple,ruck,wrinkle, crushtogether.crush,v.overpower,vanquish,quell,subdue,conquer,suppress;squeeze,press, compress.crush,n.compression; pressure,crowd.crushing,a.overwhelming.crush-room,n.foyer.crust,n.incrustation.--v.incrust.crusty,a.cross,unamiable,surly.crux,n.puzzle,riddle.cry,v.weep,sob, wail, bawl, squall, whimper, blubber, pule,bewail;shout,call,exclaim,yell,scream, vociferate,clamor, ejaculate.cry,n.exclamation, ejaculation, acclamation, outcry,clamor, vociferation, yoicks,scream,shriek,howl,yell, proclamation;slogan,shibboleth; halloo,whoop,hoot:crying,weeping, wail,lamentation, mewl, plaint whimpering.cry down.decry,disparage, dispraise, traduce.crying,n.weeping, sobbing, wailing, wail, clamation, bawling, puling, squalling.crying,a.weeping, sobbing, clamant;flagrant, egregious,heinous,nefarious.cry out upon.denounce,censure,condemn.crypt,n.catacomb; follicle.cryptic,a.hidden,secret,occult, enigmatical.cry to.pray to,implore,beseech.cry up.extol,laud,praise.cube,n.hexahedron.cucking-stool,n.castigatory, tumbrel, trebucket, ducking-stoolcucumber,n.gherkin (small and prickly).cud,n.rumen;quid.Associated words: Ruminantia, ruminant,ruminate,rumination, merycism.cuddle,v.nestle,snuggle.cudgel,n.club, bludgeon.cue,n.catchword;queue,pigtail;hint,suggestion, intimation.cuff,n.box,slap, buffet; manchette (ornamental cuff).cuff,v.box,slap,smite,strike, buffet.cull,n.cully,dupe,gull.culprit,n.offender, malefactor, delinquent, criminalsinner.cultivable,a.tillable, arable, culturable.cultivate,v.till.cultivation,n.tillage.culture,n.cultivation, tillage;refinement, enlightenment,education.cultured,a.refined,educated, enlightened.cumbersome,a.burdensome,troublesome,unwieldy,unmanageable.cunning,a.artful,crafty,sly,wily,arch,designing,deceitful,intriguing;curious,ingenious;skillful,dexterous.cunning,n.craft,deceit,craftiness,subtlety, wiliness.
crack,v.break,chop,cleave,split,rift,snap.
crack,a.(Colloq.)first-rate,excellent,fine,capital, first-class.
cracked,a.(Colloq.)crotchety,eccentric,crazy.
crackle,v.crepitate, decrepitate.--n.crepitation,crackling.
crackling,a.crepitant.--n.crepitation, decrepitation,crackle.
crack up.(Low)extol,laud,praise,cry up.
cracksman,n.burglar.
cradle,n.baby'sbed, trundle-bed; solen;cunabula.
craft,n.dexterity,skill;trade, handicraft;guild;guile,cunning,subtlety, artfulness.
craftiness,n.artfulness,guile,craft,cunning.
craftsman,n.artificer,artisan,mechanic, skilledworkman.
crafty,a.shrewd,artful,wily,tricky,cunning,sly,deceitful, Machiavelian.Antonyms:guileless,artless,undesigning.
cragged,a.jagged,broken, craggy.
cram,v.compress,crowd,squeeze,press,impact.
cramp,v.restrain,confine,hinder,restrict,obstruct.
cranium,n.skull.
crank,n.winch, turning-handle;bend,turn,twist,crook,curve.
cranky,a.(Colloq.)crotchety,capricious,unreasonable,cantankerous,cross,perverse, cross-grained, contumaciousunsteady.
cranny,n.crevice,chink. Seecrack.
crash,n.ruin,smash,failure, collapse.
crass,a.coarse, unrefined,gross,crude.
crave,v.long for, yearn for, hankerafter;beseech, entreat,implore.
craven,a.cowardly.--n.coward.
craving,n.longing,yearning,hankering, hungering; entreaty, supplication.
crawler,n.creeper, reptile;pl.Reptilia, reptiles.
crawling,a.creeping, reptile, reptant, reptatorial, reptatory.--n.creeping.
craze,v.madden, derange, distract;confuse, disarrange.
craze,n.craziness,distraction;fancy,freak,crotchet;mania,passion, infatuation.
craziness,n.insanity, lunacy, dementia, delirium; monomania; megalomania; paranoia.
crazy,a.demented, deranged,insane,delirious, dementate,mad,lunatic,distracted,frantic, crazed, crack-brained;rickety, decrepit,shaky, tottering,dilapidated; desirous, eager, infatuated.Antonyms:sane,rational.
crazy person.madman,maniac,lunatic, bedlamite; monomaniac; paranoiac; megalomaniac.
cream,n.bestpart, quintessence; cremor; cosmetic.
crease,n.ruck,wrinkle.
creation,n.origination,making, invention; universe, cosmos,world.
creative,a.demiurgic, inventive, cosmoplastic, omnific.
creature,n.being.
credence,n.belief,credit,acceptance.
credit,n.belief,faith,confidence;repute, goodname,esteem,honor;influence, prestige;trust, tick.Antonyms:discredit,dishonor,unbelief.
creditor,n.Associated words: bilk, subrogation.
credulous,a.unsuspecting,gullible.Antonym: incredulous.
creed,n.Associated-words: symbolics, symbolism Athanasian, Nicene, Apostles'.
creek,n.brook,rivulet,race, runlet, streamlet, runnel, bourn,burn;cove, bight.
creepers,n. pl.Reptilia.
creephole,n.retreat;subterfuge, expedient, makeshiftexcuse.
creeping,a.crawling, reptile, reptant;fawning, truckling,obsequious,sycophantic.
creeping,n.reptation; formication.
creepingly,adv.insidiously, cunningly.
cremate,v.incremate, incinerate.
cremation,n.incremation, incineration.Associated words: crematory, crematorium.
crest,n.tuft;helmet;top,ridge,crown,summit; armorial bearings,device, cognizance.
crested,a.cristate.
crestfallen,a.dejected, discouraged, disheartened,downcast.
crevice,n.cleft, fissure,rent,cranny,crack,chink.
crew,n.assemblage, throng,gang,mob,band,crowd.
crib,n.manger,rack;bin,bunker,box.
crib,v.(Colloq.)appropriate, plagiarize,steal, purloin.
cricket,n.Associated words: stridulate, stridulation, stridulator, stridulatory, stridulous.
crime,n.felony,atrocity,outrage,enormity;offense,transgression,misdemeanor, malefaction, dereliction.Associated words: criminology, criminologist, criminality, recidivism, recidivist.
criminal,a.felonious, flagitious.
criminal,n.felon, malefactor,culprit; criminaloid.
criminate,v.incriminate, implicate,accuse.
crimination,n.incrimination.
crimp,v.curl,crisp, frizz.
crimpy,a.frizzly, crimped,wavy.
crincum,n.(Colloq.)twist,turn,freak,caprice,fancy,whim.
cringe,v.truckle,fawn,crouch.
cringing,a.truckling,fawning,servile,obsequious,slavish.
crinkle,v.curl,wrinkle.
crinkly,a.wavy, wrinkly,kinky.
cripple,v.maim,lame,disable; hough,hamstring.
crippled,a.maimed,lame,disabled,deformed, halt.
crisis,n.criticaljuncture; climacteric, emergency,strait, exigency.
crisp,a.brittle, friable,short;crackling,lively,brisk.Antonyms:tenacious,tough,flexible.
critic,n.censor, reviewer,adept,judge, inspector; caviler, carper, censurer; Zoilus.
critical,a.discriminating,fastidious;carping,censorious,captious,caviling, zoilean;crucial, momentous,decisive,precarious, climacteric.
criticism,n.critique,censure, animadversion,stricture,cavil.
croak,v.forebode,decry,complain,grumble.
croaker,n.grumbler, alarmist, decrier, pessimist.
crock,n.jar,pot;soot,smut.
crony,n.(Colloq.) bosomfriend, intimate,associate,chum.
crook,n.bend,turn,curve,curvature, deflection; crosier; pothook;artifice,trick,subterfuge,ruse.
crook,v.bend,curve, incurvate.
crooked,a.twisted,bent,devious,deformed, tortuous, sinuous,winding, flexuous, curved, curvilinear,spiral, labyrinthial; distorted,awry,askew,wry;dishonest,fraudulent,unscrupulous,knavish.
crookedness,n.tortuousness, tortuosity, sinuosity, incurvation,curvature,deformity, curvity, wryness, anfractuosity;dishonesty, improbity.
crop,n.harvest,fruit, product, ingathering.
crop,v.clip,lop,cut off;gather, reap,harvest, garner; browse, nibble.
cross,n.crucifix, rood, gibbet; rebatedcross, gammadion, fylfot, saltire, swastika, cross bottony.Associated words: crucify, crucifixion, crucifier, cruciform,crucial, cruciate, crucigerous, crucifer, vexillum, crantara, consignation.
cross,n.hybrid,mongrel, limmer.
cross,a.athwart, transverse, intersecting; adverse,baffling,contrary,perverse;petulant,peevish, cynical,surly,unamiable, inaffable,crabbed,crusty,captious,fractious,churlish, vixenish,querulous,fretful,choleric,touchy,waspish,morose,sullen, ill-natured, irascibleacrimonious,irritable; inverse, interchanged.
cross,v.intersect; traverse; run counter to,thwart,baffle,frustrate,foil; intercross; interbreed, hybridize;cancel.
crossbarred,a.cancellated.
crossbars,n. pl.lattice, grille, cancelli.
crossbeam,n.girder,stringer.
crossbow,n.arbelest, arcubalist.
crossbreed,n.hybrid,mongrel.
crossbreeding,n.hybridization.
crossbred,a.hybrid,mongrel.
crosscut,v.intersect.
cross-examination,n.cross-questioning, inquisition.
cross-eye,n.strabismus, strabism.
cross-fertilization,n.allogamy.
crossgrained,a.intractable,contrary,perverse,refractory,froward,stubborn.
crossing,n.hybridization.
crossing,n.intersection, decussation;cancellation; traversing;junction; crosswalk; thwarting,frustration,contradiction,interference; consignation.
crossness,n.petulance, peevishness, cynicism, unamiability, moroseness, irritability, asperity, ill-nature, inaffability, irascibility.
crosswise,adv.across, transversely.
crotch,n.fork,crotchet,angle.
crotchet,n.whim,fancy,vagary,caprice,freak.
crotchety,a.whimsical,fanciful, vagarious,capricious.
crouch,v.squat,couch,stoop;cringe,fawn,truckle.
croup,n.cynanche.
crow,n.Associated words: caw, corvine, corviform, corvoid.
crow,v.brag, exult, swagger,vaunt, gasconade,vapor.
crowd,v.press, shove, jostle; compress,cram,cramp,squeeze, stow,impact;swarm, throng,troop;intrude.
crowd,n.concourse,crush,posse,multitude,number,mass, throng,horde,host,troop,bevy,knot,assembly, confluence;populace,rabble,commonalty,mob, proletariat, riffraff, the masses, rabblerout, roughscuff.
crowded,a.congested, serried, dense,compact.Antonyms: incompact,loose.
crowding,n.congestion, compression.
crown,n.diadem, coronet, corona; tiara;wreath, garland chaplet, coronal, laurel, bays;royalty,sovereignty;consummation, capsheaf,summit,top,crest,vertex, vortex; krone.Associated words: coronal, coronary.
crown,v.consummate,complete.
crowning,a.consummating, completing.
crowning,n.coronation.
crucial,a.cruciform, cross-shaped;severe,trying, ordeal
crude,a.undeveloped, inelaborate,uncouth, inartistic,unfinished.
cruel,a.pitiless,merciless,inhuman,unmerciful, fell,relentless,ruthless, truculent,brutal,unfeeling,severe,inexorable, incompassionate,implacable.
cruelly,n.inhumanity, implacability,severity,atrocity, pitilessness.
crumble,v.disintegrate,decay, molder.
crumbly,a.friable.
crumple,v.rumple,ruck,wrinkle, crushtogether.
crush,v.overpower,vanquish,quell,subdue,conquer,suppress;squeeze,press, compress.
crush,n.compression; pressure,crowd.
crushing,a.overwhelming.
crush-room,n.foyer.
crust,n.incrustation.--v.incrust.
crusty,a.cross,unamiable,surly.
crux,n.puzzle,riddle.
cry,v.weep,sob, wail, bawl, squall, whimper, blubber, pule,bewail;shout,call,exclaim,yell,scream, vociferate,clamor, ejaculate.
cry,n.exclamation, ejaculation, acclamation, outcry,clamor, vociferation, yoicks,scream,shriek,howl,yell, proclamation;slogan,shibboleth; halloo,whoop,hoot:crying,weeping, wail,lamentation, mewl, plaint whimpering.
cry down.decry,disparage, dispraise, traduce.
crying,n.weeping, sobbing, wailing, wail, clamation, bawling, puling, squalling.
crying,a.weeping, sobbing, clamant;flagrant, egregious,heinous,nefarious.
cry out upon.denounce,censure,condemn.
crypt,n.catacomb; follicle.
cryptic,a.hidden,secret,occult, enigmatical.
cry to.pray to,implore,beseech.
cry up.extol,laud,praise.
cube,n.hexahedron.
cucking-stool,n.castigatory, tumbrel, trebucket, ducking-stool
cucumber,n.gherkin (small and prickly).
cud,n.rumen;quid.Associated words: Ruminantia, ruminant,ruminate,rumination, merycism.
cuddle,v.nestle,snuggle.
cudgel,n.club, bludgeon.
cue,n.catchword;queue,pigtail;hint,suggestion, intimation.
cuff,n.box,slap, buffet; manchette (ornamental cuff).
cuff,v.box,slap,smite,strike, buffet.
cull,n.cully,dupe,gull.
culprit,n.offender, malefactor, delinquent, criminalsinner.
cultivable,a.tillable, arable, culturable.
cultivate,v.till.
cultivation,n.tillage.
culture,n.cultivation, tillage;refinement, enlightenment,education.
cultured,a.refined,educated, enlightened.
cumbersome,a.burdensome,troublesome,unwieldy,unmanageable.
cunning,a.artful,crafty,sly,wily,arch,designing,deceitful,intriguing;curious,ingenious;skillful,dexterous.
cunning,n.craft,deceit,craftiness,subtlety, wiliness.