contributory
— Adjective
– English
～ tending to bring about; being partly responsible for; "working conditions are not conducive to productivity"; "the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city"; "a contributory factor"
contrite
— Adjective
– English
～ feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
contrived
— Adjective
– English
～ showing effects of planning or manipulation; "a novel with a contrived ending"
contrived
— Adjective
– English
～ artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
controllable
— Adjective
– English
～ capable of being controlled
controlled
— Adjective
– English
～ restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds; "controlled emotions"; "the controlled release of water from reservoirs"
controlling
— Adjective
– English
～ able to control or determine policy; "a controlling interest in the firm"
controversial
— Adjective
– English
～ marked by or capable of arousing controversy; "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action"
contumacious
— Adjective
– English
～ wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; "a contumaceous witness is subject to punishment"
contumelious
— Adjective
– English
～ arrogantly insolent
convalescent
— Adjective
– English
～ returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"
convenient
— Adjective
– English
～ suited to your comfort or purpose or needs; "a convenient excuse for not going"
convenient
— Adjective
– English
～ large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense); "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for conventions"
conventional
— Adjective
– English
～ following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
conventional
— Adjective
– English
～ in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"
conventional
— Adjective
– English
～ (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
conventional
— Adjective
– English
～ conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"
conventional
— Adjective
– English
～ unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
conventional
— Adjective
– English
～ represented in simplified or symbolic form
conventional
— Adjective
– English
～ rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"