| operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
|---|
| ophthalmic | (adjective) of or relating to ophthalmology | - |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ocular, optic, optical |
| opinionated | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionative, self-opinionated |
|---|
| opinionative | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionated, self-opinionated |
|---|
| opisthognathous | (adjective) having receding jaws | - |
|---|
| opponent | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opposing |
|---|
| opportune | (adjective) suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose | - |
|---|
| opportunist | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunistic, timeserving |
|---|
| opportunistic | (adjective) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | Synonyms: opportunist, timeserving |
|---|
| opposable | (adjective) capable of being placed opposite to something | Synonyms: apposable |
|---|
| opposed | (adjective) being in opposition or having an opponent | - |
|---|
| opposing | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opponent |
|---|
| opposite | (adjective) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem | Synonyms: paired |
|---|
| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, polar |
| (adjective) the other one of a complementary pair | - |
| (adjective) being directly across from each other; facing | - |
| (adjective) altogether different in nature or quality or significance | - |
| (adjective) moving or facing away from each other | - |
| oppositive | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: adversative |
|---|
| oppressed | (adjective) burdened psychologically or mentally | Synonyms: laden |
|---|
| oppressive | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: tyrannical, tyrannous |
|---|
| (adjective) weighing heavily on the senses or spirit | - |
| opprobrious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, shameful |
|---|
| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, scurrilous |
| optative | (adjective) relating to a mood of verbs in some languages | - |
|---|
| (adjective) indicating an option or wish | - |
| optic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ocular, ophthalmic, optical |
|---|
| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: ocular, optical, visual |
| optical | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ocular, ophthalmic, optic |
|---|
| (adjective) of or relating to or involving light or optics | - |
| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: ocular, optic, visual |
| optimal | (adjective) most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied | Synonyms: optimum |
|---|
| optimistic | (adjective) expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds | - |
|---|
| (adjective) expecting the best | Synonyms: affirmative |
| optimum | (adjective) most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied | Synonyms: optimal |
|---|
| optional | (adjective) possible but not necessary; left to personal choice | - |
|---|
| opulent | (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, princely, sumptuous |
|---|
| oropharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or located near the oropharynx | - |
|---|
| orthopaedic | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopedic, orthopedical |
|---|
| orthopedic | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopaedic, orthopedical |
|---|
| orthopedical | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopaedic, orthopedic |
|---|
| orthoptic | (adjective) of or relating to normal binocular vision | - |
|---|
| orthotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex | - |
|---|
| paleoanthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the scientific study of human fossils | - |
|---|
| panoplied | (adjective) in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia | Synonyms: arrayed |
|---|
| (adjective) equipped with the complete arms and armor of a warrior | Synonyms: armored |
| panoptic | (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, wide |
|---|
| (adjective) including everything visible in one view | Synonyms: panoptical |
| panoptical | (adjective) including everything visible in one view | Synonyms: panoptic |
|---|
| pantropic | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropical |
|---|
| pantropical | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropic |
|---|
| peopled | (adjective) furnished with people | - |
|---|
| philanthropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy | - |
|---|
| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary |
| philosophic | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophical |
|---|
| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophical |
| philosophical | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophic |
|---|
| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophic |
| phytophagic | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagous, phytophilous, plant-eating |
|---|
| phytophagous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophilous, plant-eating |
|---|
| phytophilous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophagous, plant-eating |
|---|
| pop | (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: popular |
|---|
| popeyed | (adjective) having bulging eyes | - |
|---|
| (adjective) with eyes or mouth open in surprise | Synonyms: goggle-eyed, openmouthed |
| popish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
|---|
| popliteal | (adjective) of or relating to the area behind the knee joint | - |
|---|
| poppin | (adjective) Of an event that is taking place and is lively | - |
|---|
| popular | (adjective) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public | - |
|---|
| (adjective) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large | - |
| (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: pop |
| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: democratic |
| populated | (adjective) furnished with inhabitants | - |
|---|
| populous | (adjective) densely populated | Synonyms: thickly settled |
|---|
| postmenopausal | (adjective) subsequent to menopause | - |
|---|
| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
|---|
| premenopausal | (adjective) prior to menopause | - |
|---|
| preoperative | (adjective) happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation | - |
|---|
| presbyopic | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: farsighted |
|---|
| propaedeutic | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, preparatory |
|---|
| propagandist | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandistic |
|---|
| propagandistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandist |
|---|
| propagative | (adjective) characterized by propagation or relating to propagation | - |
|---|
| propellant | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellent, propelling, propulsive |
|---|
| propellent | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propelling, propulsive |
|---|
| propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
|---|
| proper | (adjective) marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness | - |
|---|
| (adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) having all the qualities typical of the thing specified | - |
| (adjective) limited to the thing specified | - |
| propertied | (adjective) owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue | Synonyms: property-owning |
|---|
| propertyless | (adjective) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers | Synonyms: blue-collar, wage-earning, working-class |
|---|
| prophetic | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetical |
|---|
| prophetical | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetic |
|---|
| prophylactic | (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, preventive |
|---|
| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: cautionary |
| (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, contraceptive |
| propitiative | (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiatory |
|---|
| propitiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, expiatory |
|---|
| (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiative |
| propitious | (adjective) presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success | - |
|---|
| proportionable | (adjective) proportionate | - |
|---|
| proportional | (adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: relative |
|---|
| (adjective) having a constant ratio | - |
| proportionate | (adjective) being in due proportion | - |
|---|
| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, symmetrical |
| (adjective) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree | - |
| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
|---|
| proprioceptive | (adjective) of or relating to proprioception | - |
|---|
| propulsive | (adjective) having the power to propel | - |
|---|
| (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propelling |
| protanopic | (adjective) inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green | Synonyms: red-blind |
|---|
| pseudoperipteral | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: peristylar |
|---|
| pseudoprostyle | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure | Synonyms: prostyle |
|---|
| psychopathic | (adjective) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder | Synonyms: psychopathologic, psychopathological |
|---|
| psychopathologic | (adjective) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder | Synonyms: psychopathic, psychopathological |
|---|
| psychopathological | (adjective) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder | Synonyms: psychopathic, psychopathologic |
|---|
| psychopharmacological | (adjective) of or relating to psychopharmacology | - |
|---|
| psychotropic | (adjective) affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes | Synonyms: psychoactive |
|---|
| radiopaque | (adjective) not transparent to X-rays or other forms of radiation | Synonyms: radio-opaque |
|---|
| radiophonic | (adjective) relating to or by means of radiotelephony | Synonyms: radiotelephonic |
|---|
| ropey | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropy |
|---|
| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropy |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready |
| ropy | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropey |
|---|
| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropey |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, stringy, thready |
| saprophagous | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprozoic |
|---|
| saprophytic | (adjective) obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material | - |
|---|
| (adjective) (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter | - |
| scalloped | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, crenated |
|---|
| schizophrenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia | Synonyms: schizoid |
|---|
| (adjective) suffering from some form of schizophrenia | - |
| scopal | (adjective) of or relating to scope | - |
|---|
| semiopaque | (adjective) partially opaque | - |
|---|
| semitropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropical, subtropic, subtropical |
|---|
| semitropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, subtropic, subtropical |
|---|
| shopsoiled | (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopworn |
|---|