| oversea | (adjective) being or passing over or across the sea | Synonyms: overseas |
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| overseas | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: abroad |
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| (adjective) being or passing over or across the sea | Synonyms: oversea |
| oversensitive | (adjective) unduly sensitive or thin-skinned | - |
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| overserious | (adjective) excessively serious | - |
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| oversewn | (adjective) sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together) | Synonyms: overhand |
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| oversexed | (adjective) having excessive sexual desire or appeal | Synonyms: highly-sexed |
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| overshot | (adjective) having an upper part projecting beyond the lower | - |
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| oversize | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversized |
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| oversized | (adjective) larger than normal for its kind | Synonyms: outsize, outsized, oversize |
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| oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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| overstated | (adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: exaggerated, overdone |
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| overstrung | (adjective) too tightly strung | - |
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| (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, restive, uptight |
| overstuffed | (adjective) upholstered thickly and deeply | - |
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| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| overt | (adjective) open and observable; not secret or hidden | Synonyms: open |
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| overturned | (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: upset, upturned |
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| overvaliant | (adjective) having or showing undue valor or boldness | - |
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| overweening | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: uppity |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, exuberant |
| overweight | (adjective) usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it | Synonyms: fleshy, heavy |
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| overwhelming | (adjective) very strong; urgently felt | Synonyms: consuming |
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| (adjective) so strong as to be irresistible | Synonyms: overpowering |
| overwrought | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: distraught |
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| overzealous | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, fanatical, rabid |
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| oxidative | (adjective) taking place in the presence of oxygen | - |
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| palliative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory |
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| pareve | (adjective) containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism | Synonyms: parve |
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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 |
| parve | (adjective) containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism | Synonyms: pareve |
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| parvenu | (adjective) of or characteristic of a parvenu | Synonyms: parvenue |
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| (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenue, upstart |
| parvenue | (adjective) of or characteristic of a parvenu | Synonyms: parvenu |
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| (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart |
| passive | (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: inactive |
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| (adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb | - |
| (adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: peaceful |
| paved | (adjective) covered with a firm surface | - |
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| peeved | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| pejorative | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, dyslogistic |
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| 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 |
| pensive | (adjective) showing pensive sadness | Synonyms: wistful |
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| (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
| perceived | (adjective) detected by means of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | Synonyms: sensed |
| perceptive | (adjective) having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to perception | - |
| percussive | (adjective) involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments | - |
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| permeative | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, pervasive |
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| permissive | (adjective) granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline | - |
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| (adjective) not preventive | - |
| persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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| persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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| pervasive | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, permeative |
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| perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
| (adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
| perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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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 |
| photoconductive | (adjective) of or relating to photoconductivity | - |
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| photoemissive | (adjective) of or relating to photoemission | - |
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| photosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to visible light | Synonyms: light-sensitive |
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| placative | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placatory |
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| plaintive | (adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: mournful |
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| planoconcave | (adjective) flat on one side and concave on the other | - |
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| planoconvex | (adjective) flat on one side and convex on the other | - |
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| plausive | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, approving |
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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 |
| 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 | - |
| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| postpositive | (adjective) (of a modifier) placed after another word | - |
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| precative | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precatory |
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| preclusive | (adjective) made impossible | Synonyms: obviating |
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| precognitive | (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: clairvoyant, second-sighted |
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| preconceived | (adjective) (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice | - |
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| predicative | (adjective) of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence | - |
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| predictive | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: prognostic, prognosticative |
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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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| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| 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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| prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
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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 | - |
| presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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| (adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
| prevenient | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: anticipatory |
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| preventable | (adjective) capable of being prevented | - |
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| preventative | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventive |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| preventive | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventative |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| primitive | (adjective) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | - |
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| (adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: naive |
| (adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: archaic |
| (adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: crude, rude |
| proactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently | - |
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| (adjective) (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens | - |
| probative | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probatory |
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| procreative | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, reproductive |
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| productive | (adjective) producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) | - |
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| (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: generative |
| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, fertile, rich |
| (adjective) yielding positive results | - |
| prognosticative | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognostic |
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| progressive | (adjective) favoring or promoting progress | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | - |
| (adjective) advancing in severity | - |
| (adjective) gradually advancing in extent | - |
| (adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist |
| (adjective) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position | - |
| prohibitive | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitory |
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| promotive | (adjective) tending to further or encourage | - |
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| propagative | (adjective) characterized by propagation or relating to propagation | - |
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| propitiative | (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiatory |
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| proprioceptive | (adjective) of or relating to proprioception | - |
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| propulsive | (adjective) having the power to propel | - |
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| (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propelling |
| prospective | (adjective) of or concerned with or related to the future | - |
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| protective | (adjective) intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind | - |
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| (adjective) showing care | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful | - |
| protrusive | (adjective) thrusting outward | - |
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| proved | (adjective) established beyond doubt | Synonyms: proven |
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| proven | (adjective) established beyond doubt | Synonyms: proved |
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| provencal | (adjective) of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture | - |
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| proverbial | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and spoken of | - |
| provocative | (adjective) serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy | - |
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| (adjective) intentionally arousing sexual desire | - |
| psychoactive | (adjective) affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes | Synonyms: psychotropic |
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| pulverised | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverized, small-grained |
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