| polysynthetic | (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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| polytheistic | (adjective) worshipping or believing in more than one god | - |
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| polytonal | (adjective) using more than one key or tonality simultaneously | - |
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| polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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| polyvalent | (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: multivalent |
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| (adjective) containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen | - |
| pomaded | (adjective) (of hair) groomed with pomade | - |
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| pompous | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: ceremonious |
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| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous |
| ponderable | (adjective) capable of being weighed or considered | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: cogitable |
| pondering | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative |
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| ponderous | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, lumbering |
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| (adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness | - |
| (adjective) labored and dull | - |
| pontifical | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: episcopal |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, papal |
| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous |
| poor | (adjective) having little money or few possessions | - |
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| (adjective) lacking in quality or substances | - |
| (adjective) characterized by or indicating poverty | - |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, short |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched |
| poorly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| pop | (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: popular |
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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 |
| popish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| popliteal | (adjective) of or relating to the area behind the knee joint | - |
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| poppin | (adjective) Of an event that is taking place and is lively | - |
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| popular | (adjective) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public | - |
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| (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 | - |
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| populous | (adjective) densely populated | Synonyms: thickly settled |
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| porcine | (adjective) relating to or suggesting swine | - |
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| (adjective) repellently fat | Synonyms: gross |
| (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish |
| poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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| pornographic | (adjective) designed to arouse lust | Synonyms: adult |
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| porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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| porous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: poriferous |
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| (adjective) allowing passage in and out | Synonyms: holey |
| (adjective) able to absorb fluids | - |
| porphyritic | (adjective) (of rocks) consisting of porphyry or containing large crystals in a fine groundmass of minerals | - |
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| port | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: larboard |
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| portable | (adjective) easily or conveniently transported | - |
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| (adjective) of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull | - |
| portentous | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical |
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| (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, foreboding |
| (adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: prodigious |
| porticoed | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, amphistylar |
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| portly | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: stout |
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| portrayed | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, pictured |
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| posed | (adjective) arranged for pictorial purposes | - |
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| posh | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, swish |
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| positionable | (adjective) capable of being positioned | - |
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| positional | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by position | - |
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| positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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| positive | (adjective) characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. | - |
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| (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: confirming |
| (adjective) reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positivist, positivistic |
| (adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: plus |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, convinced |
| (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: electropositive, positively charged |
| (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, overconfident |
| (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: prescribed |
| (adjective) greater than zero | - |
| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, irrefutable |
| positivist | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivistic |
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| positivistic | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivist |
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| possessed | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, demoniacal |
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| (adjective) influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion | Synonyms: obsessed |
| possessive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: genitive |
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| (adjective) desirous of owning | - |
| (adjective) having or showing a desire to control or dominate | - |
| possible | (adjective) capable of happening or existing | - |
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| (adjective) existing in possibility | Synonyms: potential |
| postal | (adjective) of or relating to the system for delivering mail | - |
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| postbiblical | (adjective) subsequent to biblical times | - |
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| postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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| postdoctoral | (adjective) of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed | - |
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| posted | (adjective) publicly displayed | - |
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| posterior | (adjective) located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure | - |
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| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, ulterior |
| postexilic | (adjective) of or relating to the period in Jewish history after 539 BC (after the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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| postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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| postglacial | (adjective) relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period | - |
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| postgraduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: graduate |
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| posthumous | (adjective) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | - |
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| postictal | (adjective) pertaining to the period following a seizure or convulsion | - |
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| postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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| postmenopausal | (adjective) subsequent to menopause | - |
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| postmeridian | (adjective) after midday | - |
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| postmillennial | (adjective) of or relating to the period following the millennium | - |
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| postmodern | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodernist |
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| postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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| postmortal | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortem |
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| postmortem | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortal |
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| (adjective) after death or after an event | - |
| postnatal | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postpartum |
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| postnuptial | (adjective) relating to events after a marriage | - |
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| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| postpaid | (adjective) used especially of mail; paid in advance | Synonyms: prepaid |
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| postpartum | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postnatal |
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| postpositive | (adjective) (of a modifier) placed after another word | - |
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| postprandial | (adjective) following a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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| postulational | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, axiomatical |
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| postural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving posture | - |
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| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| potable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drinkable |
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| potbellied | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, paunchy |
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| potbound | (adjective) (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots | Synonyms: rootbound |
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| potent | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: stiff, strong |
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| (adjective) (of a male) capable of copulation | Synonyms: virile |
| (adjective) having great influence | Synonyms: powerful |
| (adjective) having or wielding force or authority | Synonyms: strong |
| potential | (adjective) existing in possibility | Synonyms: possible |
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| (adjective) expected to become or be; in prospect | Synonyms: likely |
| potholed | (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, pockmarked |
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| potted | (adjective) of plants; planted or grown in a pot | - |
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| (adjective) (British informal) summarized or abridged | - |
| (adjective) preserved in a pot or can or jar | - |
| potty | (adjective) slightly intoxicated | Synonyms: tiddly, tipsy |
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| (adjective) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness | Synonyms: enamored, in love, infatuated, smitten, soft on, taken with |
| (adjective) (British informal) trivial | - |
| pouched | (adjective) having a pouch | - |
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| pouchlike | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: bursiform, pouch-shaped, saclike |
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| pouring | (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: gushing |
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| powdered | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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| powdery | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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| (adjective) as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder | - |
| powered | (adjective) (often used in combination) having or using or propelled by means of power or power of a specified kind | - |
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| powerful | (adjective) having great power or force or potency or effect | - |
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| (adjective) having great influence | Synonyms: potent |
| (adjective) displaying superhuman strength or power | Synonyms: herculean |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, muscular, sinewy |
| (adjective) strong enough to knock down or overwhelm | Synonyms: knock-down |
| powerless | (adjective) lacking power | - |
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| predisposed | (adjective) made susceptible | - |
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| preponderant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating |
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| preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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| prepositional | (adjective) of or relating to or formed with a preposition | - |
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| prepossessing | (adjective) creating a favorable impression | - |
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| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| proportionable | (adjective) proportionate | - |
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| proportional | (adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) having a constant ratio | - |
| proportionate | (adjective) being in due proportion | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, symmetrical |
| (adjective) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree | - |
| purposeful | (adjective) serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) having meaning through having an aim | - |