cup, n. mug, noggin, nipperkin, beaker, bumper, tankard, jorum, tig; pl. carousal, wassail, intoxication, orgies; cupping-glass, cupel; calyx.
cupboard, n. locker, buffet, ambry, closet.
cupidity, n. covetousness, avarice, greediness.
cupola, n. dome; lantern.
curable, a. remediable, sanable. Antonyms: incurable, irremediable.
curative, a. remedial, sanatory.
curator, n. custodian, keeper, trustee, warden.
curb, v. check, restrain, control, repress, bridle.
curb roof, gambrel roof; mansard roof.
curdle, v. coagulate, thicken, curd, clabber, lopper
curdled, a. coagulated, thickened, loppered.
curdled milk. clabber.
curé, n. spiritual charge, curacy; medical treatment, therapy; antidote, remedy, specific; healing.
cure-all, n. panacea, catholicon.
curiosity, n. inquisitiveness; curio, freak, rarity, rara avis, wonder. Antonyms: incuriosity, uninquisitiveness.
curious, a. inquisitive; strange, rare, unusual. Antonym: incurious.
curl, n. ringlet, kink, toupet.
curl, v. crisp, crimp, crape; writhe, wreathe, twist, wind.
curling, n. crispation.
curl paper. papillote.
curly, a. curling, curled, crinkled, crinkly, wavy, kinky.
curlycue, n. (Colloq.) flourish, paraph, caper.
current, a. present, instant; circulating, rife.
curse, n. denunciation, anathema, ban, malediction, execration, imprecation, fulmination, malison, maranatha; torment, plague, scourge, affliction.
curse, v. anathematize, execrate, fulminate, denounce, condemn.
cursed, a. accursed, execrable, abominable, odious.
curtail, v. shorten, reduce, retrench.
curtain, n. hanging, drapery, portiere, valance, purdah.
curvature, n. curve, flexure, sinuosity; cyrtosis.
curve, v. bend, crook, turn, inflect, deflect, deviate, wind.
cushion, n. pad, bolster, pillow, pillion; pouf, pouffle.
cussedness, n. (Slang) perversity, obstinacy, doggedness, meanness.
custodian, n. curator, guardian, keeper.
custody, n. safe-keeping, care; imprisonment.
custom, n. usage, practice, conventionality; patronage; impost, duty, tribute.
customary, a. usual, wonted, habitual, conventional, accustomed.
customer, n. patron.
cut, v. gash, slash, hew, crop, reap, mow, lop, prune, clip, shear, whittle, shave, trim, detruncate, dock, curtail, exscind, dissect, chamfer, amputate, carve, chase, chisel, lance, bisect, cleave, razee, slit, incise, fell, score, nurl, knurl.
cut, n. incision, gash, slash, slit, wound; slight, ignoration; sarcasm, taunt; notch, groove, chamfret; defile, passage; kerf; slice, piece; fashion, style, mode; engraving.
cut down. fell; retrench, curtail, reduce.
cute, a. (Colloq.) clever, sharp, ingenious, cunning, shrewd.
cut off. amputate, sever; interrupt, stop, intercept.
cut out. exscind, excise, remove; supplant; debar, exclude.
cutting, a. incisive, sharp, keen, trenchant; penetrating, nipping, biting; sarcastic, satirical, caustic, acrimonious, mordacious; secant.
cutting, n. incision, felling, amputation, cleavage, truncation, curtailment, celotomy, dissection, scarification, slashing, cropping; slip, scion, clipping. Associated words: sectile, sectility, insecable.
cutting out. excision, exsection.
cut to pieces. dissect, mutilate, dismember.
cut up. afflict, grieve, distress, harry; play pranks, play tricks, cut capers, misbehave.
cyclone, n. tornado.
cypher, n. See cipher.
Czar, n. Tsar, Tzar. Associated words: Czarinian Czarowitz, Czarevna, autocrat.
Czarina, n. Tsarina, Tsaritsa.