Compulsion, n. Coercion, constraint, application or employment of force.
Compulsory, a.
- 1. Compelling, constraining, coercive.
- 2. Binding, obligatory, enforced, necessary, unavoidable, not to be evaded.
Compunction, n. Repentance, remorse, contrition, penitence, sorrow, regret, misgiving, qualm, reluctance, reproach of conscience, sting of conscience.
Compunctious, a. Repentant, penitent, contrite, remorseful, sorrowful, conscience-stinging, conscience- stung.
Computable, a. Calculable.
Computation, n. Reckoning, calculation, estimate, account.
Compute, v. a. Reckon, calculate, estimate, count, number, rate, cast, cast up, sum up.
Comrade, n. Companion, associate, mate, fellow, compeer, boon companion.
Con, v. a. Study, read over carefully, consider minutely, fix in the mind, commit to memory, learn by heart, con over.
Con amore. [It.] With love, with delight, with delighted interest, with pleasure, with zeal, zealously, with zest, with inclination, with predilection, with fondness.
Conation, n. Voluntary activity, desire and will, wishing and willing, want and volition.
Conative, a. Voluntary, pertaining to conation.
Conatus, n. Endeavor, effort, nisus.
Concatenate, v. a. Connect, unite, join, link together.
Concatenation, n.
- 1. Connection, linking-together, intimate relationship.
- 2. Series, chain, succession, sequence, congeries, successive series.
Concave, a. Hollow, hollowed, depressed.
Concave, n. See concavity, 2.
Concavity, n.
- 1. Hollowness, hollow shape, hollowed condition, state or degree of incurvation.
- 2. Hollow space, hollow, depression.