| punishable | (adjective) liable to or deserving punishment | - |
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| (adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: penal |
| punished | (adjective) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience) | - |
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| punishing | (adjective) resulting in punishment | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome |
| punitive | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitory |
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| punitory | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitive |
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| punk | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, sleazy, tinny |
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| punny | (adjective) provoking laughter by means of word play | - |
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| puny | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: runty, shrimpy |
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| (adjective) inferior in strength or significance | - |
| pupal | (adjective) of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage | - |
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| pupillary | (adjective) of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
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| puppyish | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppylike |
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| puppylike | (adjective) characteristic of a puppy | Synonyms: puppyish |
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| purblind | (adjective) having greatly reduced vision | Synonyms: dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired |
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| (adjective) lacking in insight or discernment | Synonyms: obtuse |
| purchasable | (adjective) available for purchase | Synonyms: for sale |
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| (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, corruptible, dishonest, venal |
| pure | (adjective) (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless | - |
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| (adjective) free of extraneous elements of any kind | - |
| (adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: saturated |
| (adjective) in a state of sexual virginity | Synonyms: vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous |
| (adjective) free from discordant qualities | - |
| (adjective) concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| pureblood | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| pureblooded | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pedigreed, pureblood, thoroughbred |
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| purebred | (adjective) bred for many generations from member of a recognized breed or strain | - |
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| purgative | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, evacuant |
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| purgatorial | (adjective) of or resembling purgatory | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purging, purifying |
| purging | (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purifying |
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| purifying | (adjective) freeing from noxious matter | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purging |
| (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: cleansing |
| puritanic | (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanical |
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| puritanical | (adjective) of or relating to Puritans or Puritanism | - |
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| (adjective) morally rigorous and strict | Synonyms: blue, puritanic |
| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| purple | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purplish, violet |
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| (adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, majestic, regal, royal |
| (adjective) excessively elaborate or showily expressed | Synonyms: empurpled, over-embellished |
| purplish | (adjective) of a color intermediate between red and blue | Synonyms: purple, violet |
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| purposeful | (adjective) serving as or indicating the existence of a purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) having meaning through having an aim | - |
| purposeless | (adjective) not evidencing any purpose or goal | - |
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| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, pointless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| purposive | (adjective) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design | - |
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| (adjective) having a purpose | Synonyms: goal-directed |
| pursuant | (adjective) (followed by `to') in conformance to or agreement with | - |
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| pursued | (adjective) followed with enmity as if to harm | - |
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| pursuing | (adjective) following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit | - |
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| pursy | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: blown, short-winded, winded |
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| purulent | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: pussy |
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| pushful | (adjective) marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative | Synonyms: pushy |
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| pushy | (adjective) marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative | Synonyms: pushful |
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| pusillanimous | (adjective) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful | Synonyms: poor-spirited, unmanly |
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| pussy | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: purulent |
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| pustulate | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pimply |
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| putative | (adjective) purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds | - |
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| putdownable | (adjective) (of a book) poorly written and not entertaining | - |
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| putrefacient | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefactive |
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| putrefactive | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefacient |
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| putrefiable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrescible, spoilable |
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| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| putrescible | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, spoilable |
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| putrid | (adjective) of or relating to or attended by putrefaction | - |
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| (adjective) morally corrupt or evil | - |
| (adjective) in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor | - |
| puzzled | (adjective) filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at a loss, nonplused, nonplussed |
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| puzzling | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, perplexing |
| republican | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government | - |
| repudiative | (adjective) rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning | - |
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| repugnant | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive |
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| repulsive | (adjective) possessing the ability to repel | - |
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| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant |
| (adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: hideous |
| reputable | (adjective) having a good reputation | - |
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| scapular | (adjective) relating to or near the shoulder blade | - |
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| scapulohumeral | (adjective) relating to the shoulder blade and upper arm bone | - |
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| scrupulous | (adjective) having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, painstaking |
| semipublic | (adjective) having some of the features of public institution | - |
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| sepulchral | (adjective) of or relating to a sepulchre | - |
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| (adjective) suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial | Synonyms: funereal |
| (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, ghastly |
| spumy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy |
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| spunky | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, plucky |
| spurious | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: inauthentic, unauthentic |
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| (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: specious |
| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten |
| (adjective) ostensibly valid, but not actually valid | - |
| spurned | (adjective) rebuffed (by a lover) without warning | Synonyms: jilted, rejected |
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| spurting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, squirting |
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| stipulatory | (adjective) constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement | Synonyms: agreed upon |
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| suppurative | (adjective) relating to or characterized by suppuration | - |
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| underpopulated | (adjective) having a lower population density than normal or desirable | - |
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| undisputable | (adjective) not open to question; obviously true | Synonyms: incontestable, indisputable |
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| undisputed | (adjective) generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute | Synonyms: unchallenged, unquestioned |
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| unexpurgated | (adjective) not having material deleted | - |
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| unpopular | (adjective) regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval | - |
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| unpopulated | (adjective) with no people living there | Synonyms: unpeopled |
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| unpublishable | (adjective) not suitable for publication | - |
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| unpublished | (adjective) not published | - |
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| unpunctual | (adjective) not punctual; after the appointed time | - |
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| unpunished | (adjective) not punished | - |
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| unpurified | (adjective) not made pure | - |
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| unscrupulous | (adjective) without scruples or principles | - |
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