| predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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| predestinate | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestined |
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| predestined | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestinate |
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| predetermined | (adjective) set in advance | Synonyms: preset |
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| predicative | (adjective) of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence | - |
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| predictable | (adjective) capable of being foretold | - |
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| predictive | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: prognostic, prognosticative |
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| predigested | (adjective) artificially partially digested as by enzymatic action | - |
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| predisposed | (adjective) made susceptible | - |
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| predominant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
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| (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife |
| predominate | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, preponderant, preponderating |
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| preeminent | (adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: leading |
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| preemptive | (adjective) designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence | Synonyms: pre-emptive |
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| preexistent | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexisting |
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| preexisting | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexistent |
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| prefab | (adjective) manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere | - |
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| prefaded | (adjective) (of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means | - |
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| prefatorial | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatory |
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| prefatory | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatorial |
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| prefectural | (adjective) of or relating to a prefecture | - |
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| preferable | (adjective) more desirable than another | Synonyms: preferred |
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| preferent | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferred |
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| preferential | (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| preferred | (adjective) more desirable than another | Synonyms: preferable |
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| (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent |
| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| prefrontal | (adjective) anterior to a frontal structure | - |
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| pregnant | (adjective) carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life | - |
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| (adjective) filled with or attended with | Synonyms: fraught |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, significant |
| prehensile | (adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object | - |
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| (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy |
| (adjective) having a keen intellect | - |
| prehistoric | (adjective) of or relating to times before written history | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistorical |
| (adjective) outdated | - |
| prehistorical | (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistoric |
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| prejudiced | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| (adjective) emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices | - |
| prejudicial | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicious |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicious |
| prejudicious | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicial |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicial |
| prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
| premarital | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, prenuptial |
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| premature | (adjective) born after a gestation period of less than the normal time | - |
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| (adjective) uncommonly early or before the expected time | Synonyms: untimely |
| (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: previous |
| premedical | (adjective) preparing for the study of medicine | - |
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| (adjective) preceding and preparing for the study of medicine | - |
| premeditated | (adjective) characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning | - |
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| premenopausal | (adjective) prior to menopause | - |
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| premenstrual | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring during the time just before menstruation | - |
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| premier | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premiere |
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| (adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: prime |
| premiere | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premier |
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| premium | (adjective) having or reflecting superior quality or value; having a higher price or cost | - |
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| premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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| prenatal | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antenatal, antepartum |
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| prenominal | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: attributive |
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| prenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, premarital |
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| preoccupied | (adjective) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something | Synonyms: haunted, obsessed, taken up |
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| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: bemused, lost |
| preoperative | (adjective) happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation | - |
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| prepackaged | (adjective) prepared and wrapped beforehand and ready for sale | Synonyms: prepacked |
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| prepacked | (adjective) prepared and wrapped beforehand and ready for sale | Synonyms: prepackaged |
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| prepaid | (adjective) used especially of mail; paid in advance | Synonyms: postpaid |
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| preparative | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparatory, propaedeutic |
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| preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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| prepared | (adjective) made ready or fit or suitable beforehand | - |
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| (adjective) equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources | - |
| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, fain, inclined |
| 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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| preprandial | (adjective) preceding a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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| prepubertal | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubescent |
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| prepubescent | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubertal |
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| prepupal | (adjective) of an inactive stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages | - |
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| prerecorded | (adjective) recorded at one time for transmission later | - |
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| prerequisite | (adjective) required as a prior condition or course of study | - |
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| presbyopic | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: farsighted |
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| prescient | (adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur | - |
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| prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
| prescription | (adjective) available only with a doctor's written prescription | - |
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| prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
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| present | (adjective) temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration | - |
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| (adjective) being or existing in a specified place | - |
| presentable | (adjective) fit to be seen | - |
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| presentational | (adjective) of or relating to a presentation (especially in psychology or philosophy) | - |
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| preservable | (adjective) capable of being preserved | - |
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| preservative | (adjective) tending or having the power to preserve | - |
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| preserved | (adjective) kept intact or in a particular condition | - |
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| (adjective) prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use | - |
| preset | (adjective) set in advance | Synonyms: predetermined |
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| presidential | (adjective) befitting a president | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a president or presidency | - |
| presocratic | (adjective) before the time of Socrates | Synonyms: pre-Socratic |
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| pressed | (adjective) compacted by ironing | - |
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| pressing | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: urgent |
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| pressor | (adjective) increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure | - |
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| prestigious | (adjective) exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige | - |
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| (adjective) having an illustrious reputation; respected | Synonyms: esteemed, honored, honoured |
| prestissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as fast as possible | - |
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| presto | (adjective) (of tempo) very fast | - |
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| presumable | (adjective) capable of being inferred on slight grounds | Synonyms: supposable, surmisable |
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| presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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| (adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
| presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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| presymptomatic | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: preclinical |
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| preteen | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preadolescent |
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| pretend | (adjective) imagined as in a play | Synonyms: make-believe |
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| pretended | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham |
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| pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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| (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| pretorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorian |
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| pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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| pretty | (adjective) (used ironically) unexpectedly bad | - |
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| (adjective) pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing | - |