| particular | (adjective) providing specific details or circumstances | - |
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| (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, picky |
| (adjective) first and most important | Synonyms: special |
| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: peculiar, special |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, exceptional, special |
| (adjective) separate and distinct from others of the same group or category | - |
| particularised | (adjective) directed toward a specific object | Synonyms: particularized |
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| particularistic | (adjective) relating to particularism (exclusive interest in one group or class or sect etc.) | - |
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| particularized | (adjective) directed toward a specific object | Synonyms: particularised |
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| particulate | (adjective) composed of distinct particles | - |
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| partisan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partizan |
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| partitive | (adjective) indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts | - |
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| (adjective) (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole | - |
| (adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: separative |
| partizan | (adjective) devoted to a cause or party | Synonyms: partisan |
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| parturient | (adjective) of or relating to or giving birth | - |
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| (adjective) giving birth | - |
| pert | (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, irreverent, saucy |
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| pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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| pertinent | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, apt |
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| (adjective) having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand | Synonyms: to the point |
| perturbed | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, rattled |
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| perturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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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 |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| postpartum | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postnatal |
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| praiseworthy | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, commendable, laudable |
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| preconcerted | (adjective) previously arranged or agreed on | - |
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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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| pubertal | (adjective) of or related to puberty | - |
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| quadripartite | (adjective) involving four parties | Synonyms: four-party |
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| quartan | (adjective) occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria) | - |
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| quarterly | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | - |
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| quartzose | (adjective) relating to or made of quartz | - |
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| reportable | (adjective) (of income) required by law to be reported | - |
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| (adjective) meriting report | - |
| reported | (adjective) made known or told about; especially presented in a formal account | - |
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| revertible | (adjective) to be returned to the former owner or that owner's heirs | - |
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| reverting | (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: returning |
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| sabertoothed | (adjective) having teeth that resemble sabers | Synonyms: saber-toothed, sabre-toothed |
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| sartorial | (adjective) of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the sartorius muscle | - |
| seagirt | (adjective) surrounded or enclosed by the sea | - |
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| seaworthy | (adjective) fit for a sea voyage | - |
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| shirty | (adjective) (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | Synonyms: snorty |
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| short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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| (adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
| (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
| (adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
| (adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
| (adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
| shortened | (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: cut |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated |
| (adjective) shortened | Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off |
| (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: telescoped |
| shorthand | (adjective) written in abbreviated or symbolic form | - |
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| shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| skirting | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: encircling |
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| smart | (adjective) showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness | - |
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| (adjective) capable of independent and apparently intelligent action | - |
| (adjective) quick and brisk | - |
| (adjective) improperly forward or bold | Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, wise |
| (adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: bright |
| (adjective) painfully severe | - |
| (adjective) elegant and stylish | Synonyms: chic, voguish |
| snorty | (adjective) (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | Synonyms: shirty |
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| softhearted | (adjective) easily moved to pity or sorrow | Synonyms: soft-boiled |
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| sorted | (adjective) arranged into groups | Synonyms: grouped |
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| (adjective) arranged according to size | - |
| spartan | (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, austere |
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| (adjective) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment | Synonyms: severe |
| (adjective) resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity | - |
| sporting | (adjective) relating to or used in sports | - |
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| (adjective) involving risk or willingness to take a risk | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sportsmanlike, sporty |
| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, gambling |
| sportive | (adjective) relating to or interested in sports | - |
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| (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking |
| sportsmanlike | (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sporty |
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| sporty | (adjective) appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sportsmanlike |
| spurting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, squirting |
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| squirting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, spurting |
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| stalwart | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stouthearted |
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| (adjective) dependable | Synonyms: stout |
| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stout, sturdy |
| starting | (adjective) appropriate to the beginning or start of an event | - |
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| (adjective) (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear | - |
| startled | (adjective) excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement | - |
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| startling | (adjective) so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm | - |
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| stertorous | (adjective) of breathing having a heavy snoring sound | - |
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| stonyhearted | (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: hardhearted, unfeeling |
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| stouthearted | (adjective) used especially of persons | Synonyms: stalwart |
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| subartesian | (adjective) (of water) rising naturally in a well to a height appreciably above that of the surrounding water table but not flowing out of the well | - |
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| subcortical | (adjective) of or relating to or being or involving nerve centers below the cerebral cortex | - |
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| supportable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, endurable, sufferable |
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| supported | (adjective) held up or having the weight borne especially from below | - |
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| (adjective) sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support) | - |
| supporting | (adjective) capable of bearing a structural load | Synonyms: load-bearing |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: encouraging |
| supportive | (adjective) furnishing support or assistance | - |
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| swart | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy |
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| swarthy | (adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color | Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart |
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| sweetheart | (adjective) privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically) | - |
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| tart | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, sourish, tangy |
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| (adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, sharp |
| tartaric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or resembling tartar | - |
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| tenderhearted | (adjective) easily moved by another's distress | - |
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| (adjective) easily moved to love | - |
| tertian | (adjective) relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds | - |
| tertiary | (adjective) coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position | Synonyms: 3rd, third |
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| thalamocortical | (adjective) relating to or connecting the cortex and thalamus | - |
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| thirteen | (adjective) being one more than twelve | Synonyms: 13, xiii |
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| thirteenth | (adjective) coming next after the twelfth in position | Synonyms: 13th |
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| thirtieth | (adjective) coming next after the twenty-ninth in position | Synonyms: 30th |
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| thirty | (adjective) being ten more than twenty | Synonyms: 30, xxx |
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| thwarted | (adjective) disappointingly unsuccessful | Synonyms: defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated |
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| thwarting | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, frustrative |
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| thwartwise | (adjective) extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis | Synonyms: cross, transversal, transverse |
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| tortious | (adjective) of or pertaining to the nature of a tort | - |
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| tortuous | (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled |
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| (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding |
| (adjective) not straightforward | - |
| tortured | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: anguished, tormented |
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| torturesome | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous |
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| torturing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturous |
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| torturous | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing |
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| transportable | (adjective) capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another | Synonyms: movable, moveable, transferable, transferrable |
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| tripartite | (adjective) involving three parties or elements | Synonyms: three-party, three-way |
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