| perturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| peruked | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwigged |
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| pervasive | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, permeative |
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| perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
| (adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
| perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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| perverted | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: kinky |
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| (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverse, reprobate |
| (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, twisted |
| pervious | (adjective) admitting of passage or entrance | - |
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| pesky | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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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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| pestered | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried, vexed |
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| pestering | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| pestiferous | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
| (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, perversive |
| (adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: dirty |
| pestilent | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious |
| pestilential | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey |
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| pet | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, preferent, preferred |
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| petaled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petalled, petalous |
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| petalled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalous |
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| petalless | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: apetalous |
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| petallike | (adjective) resembling a petal | Synonyms: petal-like |
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| petaloid | (adjective) resembling a flower petal | - |
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| petalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalled |
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| petite | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, tiny |
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| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| petrifying | (adjective) paralyzing with terror | - |
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| petrous | (adjective) (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness | Synonyms: stonelike |
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| petticoated | (adjective) wearing or furnished with a petticoat | - |
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| pettish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| petty | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, secondary, subaltern |
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| (adjective) contemptibly narrow in outlook | Synonyms: small-minded |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| petulant | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| physiotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in physical therapy | - |
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| pinstriped | (adjective) having very thin stripes | - |
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| pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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| polypetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of many separated or distinct petals | - |
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| popeyed | (adjective) having bulging eyes | - |
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| (adjective) with eyes or mouth open in surprise | Synonyms: goggle-eyed, openmouthed |
| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| preoperative | (adjective) happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation | - |
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| propellant | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellent, propelling, propulsive |
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| propellent | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propelling, propulsive |
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| propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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| proper | (adjective) marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness | - |
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| (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 |
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| propertyless | (adjective) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers | Synonyms: blue-collar, wage-earning, working-class |
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| prospective | (adjective) of or concerned with or related to the future | - |
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| prospering | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| prosperous | (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: golden, halcyon |
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| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, lucky |
| (adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, easy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, roaring, thriving |
| pseudoperipteral | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: peristylar |
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| psychotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing psychotherapy | - |
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| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: cathartic |
| puerperal | (adjective) relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth | - |
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| pumped | (adjective) tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline | Synonyms: pumped-up, pumped up, wired |
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| quadruped | (adjective) having four feet | Synonyms: four-footed, quadrupedal |
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| quadrupedal | (adjective) having four feet | Synonyms: four-footed, quadruped |
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| raped | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, pillaged, ravaged, sacked |
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| recuperative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: restorative |
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| repeatable | (adjective) able or fit to be repeated or quoted | Synonyms: quotable |
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| repeated | (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: perennial, recurrent |
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| repellant | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellent |
| repellent | (adjective) incapable of absorbing or mixing with | Synonyms: resistant |
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| (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
| (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: rebarbative, repellant |
| repelling | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| repentant | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: penitent |
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| repetitious | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitive |
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| repetitive | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitious |
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| (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: insistent |
| respectable | (adjective) characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals | - |
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| (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
| (adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: admirable, estimable, good, honorable |
| respected | (adjective) receiving deferential regard | Synonyms: well-thought-of |
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| respectful | (adjective) full of or exhibiting respect | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or manifesting veneration | Synonyms: reverential, venerating |
| respective | (adjective) considered individually | Synonyms: several, various |
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| retrospective | (adjective) concerned with or related to the past | - |
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| ripe | (adjective) fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used | Synonyms: mature |
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| (adjective) far along in time | Synonyms: advanced |
| (adjective) at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge | - |
| (adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: good, right |
| (adjective) fully prepared or eager | - |
| ripened | (adjective) of wines, fruit, cheeses; having reached a desired or final condition; (`aged' pronounced as one syllable) | Synonyms: aged |
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| ripped | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, inebriated, intoxicated |
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| ropey | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropy |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropy |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready |
| rupestral | (adjective) composed of or inscribed on rock | Synonyms: rupicolous |
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| sandpapery | (adjective) having the abrasive texture of sandpaper | - |
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| scalloped | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, crenated |
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| semipermanent | (adjective) relating to or extending over a relatively long time | Synonyms: long-run, long-term |
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| semipermeable | (adjective) (of a membrane) selectively permeable | - |
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| serpentine | (adjective) resembling a serpent in form | Synonyms: snakelike, snaky |
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| sesquipedalian | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic |
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| (adjective) given to the overuse of long words | - |
| shaped | (adjective) having the shape of | - |
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| (adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | Synonyms: molded, wrought |
| shapeless | (adjective) having no definite form or distinct shape | Synonyms: amorphous, formless |
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| (adjective) lacking symmetry or attractive form | - |
| shapely | (adjective) having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape | - |
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| sharpened | (adjective) having the point made sharp | - |
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| (adjective) made sharp or sharper | - |
| shipshape | (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: trim, well-kept |
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| sixpenny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| slippered | (adjective) shod with slippers | - |
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| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| sloped | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloping |
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| slopped | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| speakable | (adjective) capable of being uttered in words or sentences | Synonyms: utterable |
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| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| special | (adjective) for a special service or occasion | - |
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| (adjective) first and most important | Synonyms: particular |
| (adjective) adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose | - |
| (adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: limited |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, exceptional, particular |
| (adjective) added to a regular schedule | Synonyms: extra |
| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, peculiar |
| specialised | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | Synonyms: specialized |
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| specialistic | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of specialists | - |
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| (adjective) showing focused training | - |
| specialized | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | Synonyms: specialised |
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| specifiable | (adjective) capable of being specified | - |
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| specific | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique | - |
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| (adjective) being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides | - |
| (adjective) relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species | - |
| (adjective) stated explicitly or in detail | - |
| specified | (adjective) clearly and explicitly stated | - |
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| specious | (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: spurious |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, meretricious |
| specked | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, speckled, stippled |
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