compulsory, a. constraining, coercive, obligatory, unavoidable. Antonyms: optional, discretional, elective.
compunction, n. qualm, contrition, remorse, regret, sting of conscience.
compute, v. reckon, calculate, enumerate, rate, estimate.
comrade, n. associate, companion, mate, compeer.
comradeship, n. association, camaraderie.
concave, a. rounded, vaulted. Antonym: convex.
concealed, a. hidden, latent, secreted, clandestine, disguised.
concealment, n. secretion, hiding; secrecy, latency, privacy, seclusion, retirement; suppression.
conceit, n. idea, conception, fancy; whim, caprice, vagary, freak; priggery, vanity, egotism, self-conceit, inflation, self-glorification, overweening, conceitedness.
conceited, a. egotistical, priggish, bombastic, bumptious, vain, overweening, self-conceited.
concentrate, v. centralize, focus, consolidate; condense, rectify.
concentration, n. centralization, consolidation; condensation.
concept, n. conception, notion, idea.
conception, n. ideation, imagination; idea, concept, notion, impression.
concern, n. business, affair; moment, importance, interest, weight, consequence; solicitude, anxiety, uneasiness care; firm, house, company, partnership. Antonyms: unconcern, inconsequence.
concerned, a. solicitous, worried, anxious, apprehensive, troubled, uneasy. Antonyms: unconcerned, indifferent.
concerning, prep. regarding, about, respecting, touching, with reference to.
concert, n. accordance, concurrence, harmony; musicale.
concise, a. epigrammatic, sententious, succinct, laconic, pithy. Antonyms: diffuse, prolix.
conclude, v. decide, determine, resolve; end, close; infer, deduce; effect, arrange.
conclusion, n. decision, determination; inference, deduction, corollary, illation; close, end, peroration, finale, completion, denouement, l’envoy.
concoct, v. compound, mix; devise, contrive, invent, excogitate.
concrete, a. solidified, consolidated; specific, special, particular.
concretion, n. solidification, lapidescence, stone; clot, coagulation.
concubine, n. paramour, odalisque; pl. harem, seraglio.
condemn, v. denounce, anathematize, curse, execrate, reprobate, doom, ban. Antonyms: exonerate, exculpate, vindicate, absolve, justify, praise.
condemnation, n. denunciation, reprobation, execration, ban.
condemnatory, a. denunciatory, condemning.
condense, v. abridge, epitomize, reduce; compress, concentrate.
condescend, v. deign, vouchsafe.
condition, n. state, plight, category, predicament, situation, stipulation, provision, proviso, term, prerequisite.
conditional, a. contingent, subject, provisory.
conduce, v. lead, tend, contribute, redound, subserve, advance.