| ANTICOMPETITIVE | • anticompetitive adj. (Economics, business) Acting to hinder or obstruct competition. • anti-competitive adj. Alternative form of anticompetitive. • ANTICOMPETITIVE adj. tending to reduce or discourage competition. |
| COMPARATIVENESS | • comparativeness n. The state or quality of being comparative. • COMPARATIVE n. of the nature of comparison. |
| COMPELLATIVE | • compellative n. (Grammar) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative. • COMPELLATIVE n. compellation. |
| COMPELLATIVES | • compellatives n. Plural of compellative. • COMPELLATIVE n. compellation. |
| COMPENSATIVE | • compensative adj. That compensates for something; compensatory. • compensative n. (Obsolete) compensation. • COMPENSATIVE adj. relating to compensation, also COMPENSATIONAL. |
| CONTEMPLATIVE | • contemplative adj. Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative. • contemplative adj. Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties. • contemplative adj. Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation. |
| CONTEMPLATIVELY | • contemplatively adv. In a contemplative manner. • CONTEMPLATIVE adv. related to contemplation. |
| CONTEMPLATIVES | • contemplatives n. Plural of contemplative. • CONTEMPLATIVE n. a person who practices contemplation. |
| OVERCOMPENSATE | • overcompensate v. (Intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area. • overcompensate v. (Transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed. • OVERCOMPENSATE v. to compensate excessively. |
| OVERCOMPENSATED | • overcompensated v. Simple past tense and past participle of overcompensate. • OVERCOMPENSATE v. to compensate excessively. |
| OVERCOMPENSATES | • overcompensates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcompensate. • OVERCOMPENSATE v. to compensate excessively. |
| OVERCOMPLIANCE | • overcompliance n. Compliance beyond what is necessary. • OVERCOMPLIANCE n. excessive compliance. |
| OVERCOMPLIANCES | • OVERCOMPLIANCE n. excessive compliance. |
| OVERCOMPLICATE | • overcomplicate v. (Transitive) To make something excessively complicated. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |
| OVERCOMPLICATED | • overcomplicated adj. Excessively complicated. • overcomplicated v. Simple past tense and past participle of overcomplicate. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |
| OVERCOMPLICATES | • overcomplicates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcomplicate. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |
| OVEREMPHATIC | • overemphatic adj. Excessively emphatic, particularly in musical or theatrical interpretation. • OVEREMPHATIC adj. excessively emphatic. |