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; rebated cross, 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, irascible acrimonious, 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.