| nimble | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, quick, spry |
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| (adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: agile |
| nonimitative | (adjective) not marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| nonimmune | (adjective) (often followed by `to') likely to be affected with | Synonyms: liable, nonresistant, unresistant |
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| onetime | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, quondam, sometime |
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| optimal | (adjective) most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied | Synonyms: optimum |
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| optimistic | (adjective) expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds | - |
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| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: affirmative |
| optimum | (adjective) most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied | Synonyms: optimal |
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| parasympathomimetic | (adjective) having an effect similar to that resulting from stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system | - |
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| parsimonious | (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: penurious |
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| patrimonial | (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, transmissible |
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| penultimate | (adjective) second last | Synonyms: next-to-last |
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| pessimal | (adjective) of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival | Synonyms: pessimum |
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| pessimistic | (adjective) expecting the worst possible outcome | - |
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| pessimum | (adjective) of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival | Synonyms: pessimal |
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| pianissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very soft | - |
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| pimpled | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimply, pustulate |
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| pimply | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pustulate |
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| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| prestissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as fast as possible | - |
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| prim | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
| prima | (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, star, starring, stellar |
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| primaeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primordial |
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| primal | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primeval, primordial |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, key |
| primary | (adjective) of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, elementary |
| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, principal |
| (adjective) not derived from or reducible to something else; basic | - |
| prime | (adjective) of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers | - |
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| (adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: meridian |
| (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prize, quality, select |
| (adjective) used of the first or originating agent | - |
| (adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: premier |
| primed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed | Synonyms: fit, set |
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| primeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primordial |
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| primiparous | (adjective) of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once | - |
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| primitive | (adjective) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | - |
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| (adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: naive |
| (adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: archaic |
| (adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: crude, rude |
| primo | (adjective) the best of its kind | - |
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| primordial | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primeval |
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| proclaimed | (adjective) declared publicly; made widely known | Synonyms: announced |
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| proximal | (adjective) situated nearest to point of attachment or origin | - |
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| proximate | (adjective) closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects | - |
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| (adjective) very close in space or time | - |
| proximo | (adjective) in or of the next month after the present | Synonyms: prox |
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| pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
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| raimentless | (adjective) possessing no clothing | Synonyms: clothesless, garmentless |
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| reanimated | (adjective) given fresh life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: revived |
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| reclaimable | (adjective) capable of being used again | Synonyms: recyclable, reusable |
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| reclaimed | (adjective) delivered from danger | Synonyms: rescued |
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| recriminative | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminatory |
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| recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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| regimental | (adjective) belonging to or concerning a regiment | - |
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| regimented | (adjective) strictly controlled | - |
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| rimed | (adjective) covered with frost | Synonyms: frosty, rimy |
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| rimeless | (adjective) not having rhyme | Synonyms: rhymeless, unrhymed, unrimed |
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| riming | (adjective) having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds | Synonyms: rhymed, rhyming |
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| rimless | (adjective) lacking a rim or frame | - |
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| rimmed | (adjective) having a rim or a rim of a specified kind | - |
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| rimose | (adjective) having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices | - |
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| rimy | (adjective) covered with frost | Synonyms: frosty, rimed |
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| rudimentary | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: fundamental, underlying |
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| (adjective) being in the earliest stages of development | - |
| (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: vestigial |
| sanctimonious | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, self-righteous |
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| scrimpy | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy |
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| scrimy | (adjective) dirty and disgusting | - |
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| (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, niggardly |
| sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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| (adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
| semimonthly | (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: bimonthly |
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| sensorimotor | (adjective) of or relating to the sensory and motor coordination of an organism or to the controlling nerves | - |
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| sentimental | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality | - |
| sexagesimal | (adjective) of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths | - |
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| shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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| shrimpy | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, runty |
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| simian | (adjective) relating to or resembling an ape | - |
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| similar | (adjective) marked by correspondence or resemblance | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination | Synonyms: like |
| (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: alike, like |
| (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, standardised, standardized |
| (adjective) (of words) expressing closely related meanings | - |
| simple | (adjective) (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions | Synonyms: unsubdivided |
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| (adjective) having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved | - |
| (adjective) easy and not involved or complicated | Synonyms: elementary, uncomplicated, unproblematic |
| (adjective) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | Synonyms: childlike, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, wide-eyed |
| (adjective) unornamented | - |
| (adjective) lacking mental capacity and subtlety | Synonyms: dim-witted, simple-minded |
| (adjective) apart from anything else; without additions or modifications | Synonyms: bare, mere |
| simplex | (adjective) having only one part or element | - |
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| (adjective) allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time | - |
| simplistic | (adjective) characterized by extreme and often misleading simplicity | - |
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| simulated | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, imitation |
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| (adjective) reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character | - |
| simultaneous | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, cooccurring |
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| skim | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skimmed |
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| skimmed | (adjective) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed | Synonyms: skim |
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| skimpy | (adjective) containing little excess | Synonyms: lean |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) revealing the body | Synonyms: scanty |
| slim | (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slender |
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| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slight, svelte |
| slimed | (adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimy |
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| slimy | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| (adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimed |
| sometime | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam |
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| stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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| stimulated | (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: aroused, stirred, stirred up |
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| stimulating | (adjective) rousing or quickening activity or the senses | - |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
| (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulant |
| stimulative | (adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| sublimate | (adjective) made pure | - |
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| sublimated | (adjective) passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid | Synonyms: sublimed |
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| sublime | (adjective) lifted up or set high | - |
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| (adjective) inspiring awe | Synonyms: empyreal, empyrean |
| (adjective) greatest or maximal in degree; extreme | Synonyms: supreme |
| (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified |
| (adjective) worthy of adoration or reverence | Synonyms: reverend |
| sublimed | (adjective) passing or having passed from the solid to the gaseous state (or vice versa) without becoming liquid | Synonyms: sublimated |
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| subliminal | (adjective) below the threshold of conscious perception | - |
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| superimposed | (adjective) with one layer on top of another | Synonyms: layered |
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| (adjective) placed on or over something else | Synonyms: overlying |
| swimming | (adjective) applied to a fish depicted horizontally | Synonyms: naiant |
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| (adjective) filled or brimming with tears | Synonyms: liquid |
| sympathomimetic | (adjective) relating to epinephrine (its release or action) | Synonyms: adrenergic |
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| testimonial | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting testimony | - |
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| (adjective) expressing admiration or appreciation | - |
| thermogravimetric | (adjective) of or relating to thermal hydrometry | Synonyms: thermohydrometric |
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| timbered | (adjective) furnished with or made of wood or timbers | - |
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| (adjective) covered with growing timber | - |
| timed | (adjective) regularly spaced in time | - |
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| timeless | (adjective) unaffected by time | Synonyms: dateless |
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| timely | (adjective) done or happening at the appropriate or proper time | Synonyms: seasonable, well-timed, well timed |
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| (adjective) before a time limit expires | - |
| timeserving | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, opportunistic |
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| timeworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| timid | (adjective) showing fear and lack of confidence | - |
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| (adjective) lacking self-confidence | Synonyms: diffident, shy, unsure |
| (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, fainthearted |
| timorous | (adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity | Synonyms: fearful, trepid |
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| trim | (adjective) severely simple in line or design | Synonyms: tailored |
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| (adjective) thin and fit | Synonyms: spare |
| (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: shipshape, well-kept |
| (adjective) neat and smart in appearance | Synonyms: clean-cut, trig |
| trimmed | (adjective) made neat and tidy by trimming | Synonyms: cut |
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