| penetrative | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrating |
| perforate | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforated, pierced, punctured |
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| perforated | (adjective) having a number or series of holes | - |
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| (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, pierced, punctured |
| piratical | (adjective) characteristic of pirates | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of piracy | - |
| plutocratic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratical |
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| plutocratical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratic |
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| polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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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 |
| preoperative | (adjective) happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation | - |
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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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| preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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| presocratic | (adjective) before the time of Socrates | Synonyms: pre-Socratic |
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| prostrate | (adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground | Synonyms: flat |
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| (adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prone |
| quadrate | (adjective) having four sides and four angles | - |
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| quadratic | (adjective) involving the second and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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| ratable | (adjective) liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes | Synonyms: rateable |
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| rateable | (adjective) liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes | Synonyms: ratable |
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| ratified | (adjective) formally approved and invested with legal authority | Synonyms: sanctioned |
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| ratiocinative | (adjective) based on exact thinking | - |
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| rational | (adjective) consistent with or based on or using reason | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers | - |
| (adjective) having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion) | - |
| (adjective) of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind | Synonyms: intellectual, noetic |
| rationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of rationalism | - |
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| rationalistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of rationalism | - |
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| rationed | (adjective) distributed equitably in limited individual portions | - |
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| ratlike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a rat | - |
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| rattlebrained | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattled | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed |
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| rattlepated | (adjective) lacking sense or discretion | Synonyms: rattlebrained, scatterbrained, scatty |
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| rattling | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| ratty | (adjective) of or characteristic of rats | - |
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| (adjective) dirty and infested with rats | - |
| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, shabby, tatty |
| recuperative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: restorative |
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| refrigerated | (adjective) made or kept cold by refrigeration | - |
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| refrigerating | (adjective) causing cooling or freezing | Synonyms: refrigerant |
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| regenerate | (adjective) reformed spiritually or morally | - |
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| regenerating | (adjective) that are generating anew | - |
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| reinvigorated | (adjective) with restored energy | Synonyms: fresh, invigorated, refreshed |
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| reiterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: iterative |
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| remunerated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, salaried, stipendiary |
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| remunerative | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, salaried, stipendiary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, moneymaking |
| respiratory | (adjective) pertaining to respiration | - |
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| restorative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: recuperative |
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| (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
| reverberating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative |
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| reverberative | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating |
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| rostrate | (adjective) having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis | - |
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| saturated | (adjective) used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled | - |
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| (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: concentrated |
| (adjective) (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black | Synonyms: pure |
| scratchy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, techy, testy, tetchy |
| (adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: spotty, uneven |
| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: abrasive |
| semiliterate | (adjective) literate but poorly informed | - |
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| (adjective) barely able to read and write | - |
| (adjective) able to read but not to write | - |
| separate | (adjective) independent; not united or joint | - |
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| (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: freestanding |
| (adjective) separated according to race, sex, class, or religion | - |
| (adjective) have the connection undone; having become separate | Synonyms: disjoined |
| separated | (adjective) spaced apart | Synonyms: spaced |
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| (adjective) separated at the joint | Synonyms: disjointed, dislocated |
| (adjective) being or feeling set or kept apart from others | Synonyms: detached, isolated, set-apart |
| (adjective) no longer connected or joined | Synonyms: detached |
| separatist | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, fissiparous |
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| separative | (adjective) (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group | - |
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| (adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: partitive |
| (adjective) (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it | - |
| serrate | (adjective) notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex | Synonyms: notched, saw-toothed, serrated, toothed |
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| serrated | (adjective) notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex | Synonyms: notched, saw-toothed, serrate, toothed |
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| strategic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategical |
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| (adjective) highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war | - |
| strategical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategic |
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| stratified | (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: bedded |
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| (adjective) (used of society) socially hierarchical | Synonyms: class-conscious |
| (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, ranked |
| supersaturated | (adjective) being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium | - |
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| suppurative | (adjective) relating to or characterized by suppuration | - |
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| temperate | (adjective) not extreme in behavior | - |
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| (adjective) (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate | - |
| (adjective) not extreme | Synonyms: moderate |
| teratogenic | (adjective) of or relating to substances or agents that can interfere with normal embryonic development | - |
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| theocratic | (adjective) of or relating to or being a theocracy | - |
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| ulcerated | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: cankerous, ulcerous |
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| ulcerative | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by ulceration | - |
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| unadulterated | (adjective) not mixed with impurities | - |
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| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter |
| unaerated | (adjective) (used of blood) not supplied with oxygen | Synonyms: unoxygenated |
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| uncamphorated | (adjective) not containing camphor | - |
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| uncastrated | (adjective) not castrated | - |
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| unconsecrated | (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: profane, unsanctified |
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| uncooperative | (adjective) unwilling to cooperate | - |
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| (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: disobliging |
| uncorroborated | (adjective) unsupported by other evidence | Synonyms: unsubstantiated |
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| undecorated | (adjective) not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: unadorned |
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| undemocratic | (adjective) not in agreement with or according to democratic doctrine or practice or ideals | - |
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| undemonstrative | (adjective) not given to open expression of emotion | - |
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| unelaborate | (adjective) not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail | Synonyms: inelaborate |
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| unelaborated | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: sketchy |
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| unexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexploratory |
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| unexploratory | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexplorative |
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| ungrateful | (adjective) not feeling or showing gratitude | Synonyms: thankless, unthankful |
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| (adjective) disagreeable | - |
| ungratified | (adjective) worried and uneasy | Synonyms: restless, unsatisfied |
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| ungratifying | (adjective) not likely to be rewarded | Synonyms: thankless, unappreciated |
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| unincorporated | (adjective) not organized and maintained as a legal corporation | - |
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| unintegrated | (adjective) separated or isolated from others or a main group | Synonyms: segregated |
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| (adjective) not integrated; not taken into or made a part of a whole | Synonyms: nonintegrated |
| unmoderated | (adjective) not made less extreme | - |
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| unratable | (adjective) not subject to locally assessed property taxes | - |
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| unratified | (adjective) lacking legal authority | - |
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| unregenerate | (adjective) not reformed morally or spiritually | Synonyms: unregenerated |
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| (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, stubborn |
| (adjective) unrepentant and incapable of being reformed | Synonyms: unreformable |
| unregenerated | (adjective) not reformed morally or spiritually | Synonyms: unregenerate |
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| unremunerative | (adjective) not yielding profit or recompense | - |
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| unsaturated | (adjective) used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond | - |
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| (adjective) not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature | - |
| (adjective) (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted | - |
| unstratified | (adjective) not deposited in layers | - |
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| venerating | (adjective) feeling or manifesting veneration | Synonyms: respectful, reverential |
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| vertebrate | (adjective) having a backbone or spinal column | - |
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| vibrational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by vibration | - |
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| vibratory | (adjective) moving very rapidly to and fro or up and down | - |
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| vituperative | (adjective) marked by harshly abusive criticism | Synonyms: scathing |
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| wrathful | (adjective) vehemently incensed and condemnatory | Synonyms: wroth, wrothful |
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