(economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition.
avicularimorphae
camptonville
chemisorptive
chemisorptive
adj
Relating to chemisorption
chemoreceptive
chemoreceptive
adj
(of a sense organ) able to respond to a chemical stimulus
chemoreceptivities
chemoreceptivity
chemoreceptivity
noun
the ability of a sense organ to respond to a chemical stimulus
chemosorptive
coemptive
coemptive
adj
(economics) Relating to coemption
comparatival
comparatival
adj
(grammar) Expressing or relating to a comparison.
comparative
comparative
adj
(obsolete) Comparable; bearing comparison.
Approximated by comparison; relative.
Of or relating to comparison.
Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Data used to make a comparison.
(grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
(grammar) A word in the comparative form.
(obsolete) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
(obsolete) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
comparatively
comparatively
adv
In a comparative manner.
When compared to other entities.
comparativeness
comparativeness
noun
The state or quality of being comparative.
comparatives
comparatives
noun
plural of comparative
comparativist
comparativist
noun
Alternative form of comparatist
compassive
compassivity
compellative
compellative
noun
(grammar) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
compensative
compensative
adj
that compensates for something; compensatory
noun
(obsolete) compensation
compensatively
compensatively
adv
In a compensative manner; compensatorily
compensativeness
compensativeness
noun
The quality of being compensative.
competitive
competitive
adj
(biochemistry) Inhibiting the action of an enzyme by binding with it.
(economics) Capable of competing successfully.
(euphemistically, of prices) Cheap, especially used of quality products.
(of someone's character) Inclined to compete.
Of or pertaining to competition.
competitively
competitively
adv
In a competitive manner.
competitiveness
competitiveness
noun
The state of being competitive.
complaintive
complaintive
adj
Tending to complain, characterized by complaining.
complaintiveness
complaintiveness
noun
The quality of being complaintive.
complementative
completive
completive
adj
Making complete.
noun
(grammar) A construction denoting completion.
completively
completively
adv
In a completive manner.
complexive
complexively
complicative
complicative
adj
Having a tendency to complicate.
complimentative
complimentative
adj
(archaic) complimentary
compluvia
compluvia
noun
plural of compluvium
compluvium
compluvium
noun
(architecture) A space left unroofed over the court of a dwelling in Ancient Rome, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
compositive
compositive
adj
Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
compositively
compositively
adv
In a compositive manner.
comprehensive
comprehensive
adj
Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something.
noun
(Britain) A comprehensive school.
comprehensively
comprehensively
adv
In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.
comprehensiveness
comprehensiveness
noun
The state of being comprehensive.
comprehensivenesses
comprehensives
comprehensives
noun
plural of comprehensive
compressive
compressive
adj
That compresses
compressively
compressively
adv
In a compressive way.
comprovincial
comprovincial
adj
Being part of the same province.
noun
One who comes from the same province.
compulsative
compulsative
adj
(obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint
compulsatively
compulsatively
Adverb
By compulsion.
compulsive
compulsive
adj
Having power to compel; exercising or applying compulsion.
Uncontrolled or reactive and irresistible.
noun
One who exhibits compulsive behaviours.
compulsively
compulsively
adv
In a compulsive manner; obsessively.
compulsiveness
compulsiveness
noun
the state of being compulsive
compulsives
compulsives
noun
plural of compulsive
compulsivity
compulsivity
noun
compulsion
compunctive
compunctive
adj
(obsolete) Sensitive with regard to wrongdoing; conscientious.
computative
computative
adj
calculating, shrewdly or selfishly reckoning
of or relating to computation, computational
computatively
computativeness
computativeness
noun
The quality of being computative.
consumptive
consumptive
adj
(pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
Of, or relating to consumption.
noun
A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
consumptively
consumptively
adv
In a consumptive manner.
consumptiveness
consumptiveness
noun
The state of being consumptive.
consumptives
consumptives
noun
plural of consumptive
consumptivity
consumptivity
noun
The quality or degree of being consumptive.
contemplative
contemplative
adj
(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
noun
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
contemplatively
contemplatively
adv
In a contemplative manner.
contemplativeness
contemplativeness
noun
The state or quality of being contemplative.
corporativism
corporativism
noun
Synonym of corporatism
counterdevelopment
counterdevelopment
noun
A development that counteracts another development.
cryptovolcanism
decompressive
decompressive
adj
That decompresses.
hyperconservatism
hyperconservatism
noun
The quality of being hyperconservative.
improvidence
improvidence
noun
The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
improvidences
improvidences
noun
plural of improvidence
improvisatrice
improvisatrice
noun
A female improvisatore.
incomprehensive
incomprehensive
adj
Not comprehensive; shallow, incomplete.
uncomprehending
incomprehensively
incomprehensively
adv
In an incomprehensive manner.
incomprehensiveness
incomprehensiveness
noun
The condition of being incomprehensive.
inmprovidence
introspectivism
mechanoreceptive
mechanoreceptive
adj
Responsive to mechanical stimuli such as sound and touch
misprovidence
noncircumscriptive
noncompensative
noncompetitive
noncompetitive
adj
That does not involve competition or rivalry.
noncompetitively
noncompetitively
adv
In a noncompetitive way.
noncompetitiveness
noncompetitiveness
noun
The quality of not being competitive.
noncomprehensive
noncomprehensive
adj
Not comprehensive.
noncomprehensively
noncomprehensiveness
noncompressive
noncompressive
adj
Not compressive
noncompressively
noncompulsive
noncompulsive
adj
Not compulsive.
noncompulsively
nonconsumptive
nonconsumptive
adj
Not suffering from consumption, or tuberculosis.
That does not consume a resource.
That is not consumed (eaten).
nonconsumptively
nonconsumptiveness
noncontemplative
noncontemplatively
noncontemplativeness
nonemancipative
nonimplicative
nonimplicatively
nonmultiplicative
nonmultiplicative
adj
Not multiplicative.
nonmultiplicatively
omniprevalence
omniscriptive
omnispective
omnispective
adj
Beholding everything; all-seeing.
ovariosalpingectomy
ovariosalpingectomy
noun
Surgical removal of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.
overcircumspect
overcircumspect
adj
Excessively circumspect.
overcircumspection
overcompensate
overcompensate
verb
(intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
(transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed.
overcompensated
overcompensated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcompensate
overcompensates
overcompensates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate
overcompensating
overcompensating
verb
present participle of overcompensate
overcompensation
overcompensation
noun
An excess amount provided in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
Excessive pay or reward provided for work performed.
overcompensations
overcompensations
noun
plural of overcompensation
overcompensators
overcompensators
noun
plural of overcompensator
overcompensatory
overcompensatory
adj
Tending to overcompensate; providing excessive compensation.
overcompetition
overcompetitive
overcompetitive
adj
Excessively competitive.
overcompetitively
overcompetitiveness
overcompetitiveness
noun
The quality of being overcompetitive.
overcomplacence
overcomplacency
overcomplacency
noun
Excessive complacency.
overcomplacent
overcomplacent
adj
Excessively complacent.
overcomplacently
overcomplacently
adv
Too complacently.
overcomplete
overcomplete
adj
(mathematics) Describing a frame (in linear algebra) having a set of functions more than a basis
overcomplex
overcomplex
adj
Excessively complex.
overcomplexity
overcomplexity
noun
Excessive complexity.
overcompliant
overcompliant
adj
Excessively compliant.
overcomplicate
overcomplicate
verb
(transitive) To make something excessively complicated.
overcomplicated
overcomplicated
adj
excessively complicated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of overcomplicate
overcomplicates
overcomplicates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcomplicate
overcomplicating
overcomplicating
verb
present participle of overcomplicate
overcompound
overcompress
overcompress
verb
(transitive) To compress too much.
overconsumption
overconsumption
noun
Excessive consumption.
overconsumptions
overemphatic
overemphatic
adj
Excessively emphatic, particularly in musical or theatrical interpretation