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tive, inventive, creative.
4. crafty, artful, sly, wily, subtle, foxy, Sl. dumb or crazy like a fox, Scot. and North Eng. pawky; shrewd, astute, canny, sharp, knowing, Inf. cagey.
5. insidious, guileful, disingenuous, scheming, plotting, designing, calculating, contriving; deceitful, tricky, crooked, dishonest, underhanded; shifty, slippery, smooth, slick.

cup, n. 1. teacup, demitasse, Fr. tasse; Literary. chalice, goblet, wine glass; glass, beaker, tumbler, cannikin; can, mug, stein, tankard; wineskin, drinking horn or gourd, rhyton; bowl, Gk. and Rom. Antiquity. kylix; punch bowl, jorum, Gk. and Rom. Antiquity. kyathus.
2. cupful, 8 fluid ounces, 16 tablespoons, 240 milliliters; teacupful, 4 fluid ounces, 120 milliliters.
3. pan, basin, depression, crater, hollow, concavity; furrow, groove, trough; hole, cavity, excavation, pit.

cupboard, n. sideboard, buffet, china closet, cabinet, commode, Obs. ambry; pantry, cuddy, closet, storeroom.

Cupid, n. 1. god of love, Amor, Eros, amoretto.
2. matchmaker; marriage broker, Yiddish, shadchan or schatchen.

cupidity, n. 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitive ness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close-fistedness, tight-fistedness, mercenariness, venality, sordidness.
2. eagerness, avidity, yearning, craving, covetousness; keenness, itch, itching, appetite, stomach, U.S. Dial, big eye, appetence; anxiousness, breathlessness, impatience, longing, thirst, ardor, zeal, fervency, passion, mania; hankering, aspiration, hunger, ambitiousness.
3. ravenousness, voraciousness, gluttony, edacity, open-mouthedness, hoggishness, piggishness.

cupola, n. belfry, bell tower, campanile, steeple, spire; lantern, lookout, tower, turret; dome, onion dome, polygonal vault.

cur, n. 1. mongrel, mongrel dog, bitch, lurcher, Sl. mutt.
2. wretch, cad, scoundrel, dastard, knave, blackguard, villain, wastrel, ne'er do well; beast, hound, viper, skunk, polecat; All Inf. jerk, rat, creep, stinker, louse; All Sl. bum, Vulgar, bastard, Vulgar. SOB, Chiefly Brit, rotter, Chiefly Brit, bounder, Brit. blighter.

curable, adj. healable, treatable, remediable, reparable; mendable, fixable, restorable; recoverable, retrievable, reclaimable; corrigible, reformable, improvable.

curate, n. assistant priest, parish priest, Brit, deputy rector or deputy vicar; chaplain, padre, U.S. Mil. Sl. sky pilot, residentiary; priest, parson, minister, presbyter, abbd, curd, Brit, incumbent; ecclesiastic, clergyman, cleric, churchman, Brit, blackcoat, reverend, man of the cloth.

curative, adj. 1. therapeutic, medicinal, Rare, medical, curing, healing, sanative, sanatory; remedial, corrective, reparative, reparatory; mending, restorative, restoring, recuperative, recuperatory; beneficial, advantageous, helpful, salutary, healthy, good, wholesome.
-n. 2. remedy, cure, cure-all, panacea. See - cure (def. 2).

curator, n. keeper, guardian, custodian, conservator, caretaker, janitor, concierge; guard, watchman, warder, defender, protector, preserver; steward, administrator, manager, overseer, superintendent, Inf.