| nontechnical | (adjective) not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences | Synonyms: untechnical |
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| numerical | (adjective) relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers | Synonyms: mathematical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or denoting numbers | Synonyms: numeral, numeric |
| (adjective) measured or expressed in numbers | Synonyms: numeric |
| numerological | (adjective) of or relating to numerology | - |
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| obstetrical | (adjective) of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetric |
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| oecumenical | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (adjective) concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions | Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenic |
| oligarchical | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy | Synonyms: oligarchic |
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| oncological | (adjective) of or relating to or practicing oncology | Synonyms: oncologic |
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| onomatopoeical | (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic |
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| ontological | (adjective) of or relating to ontology | - |
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| optical | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the eye | Synonyms: ocular, ophthalmic, optic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or involving light or optics | - |
| (adjective) relating to or using sight | Synonyms: ocular, optic, visual |
| oratorical | (adjective) characteristic of an orator or oratory | - |
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| ornithological | (adjective) of or relating to ornithology | - |
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| orthopedical | (adjective) of or relating to orthopedics | Synonyms: orthopaedic, orthopedic |
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| overcritical | (adjective) inclined to judge too severely | Synonyms: hypercritical |
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| palaeontological | (adjective) of or relating to paleontology | Synonyms: paleontological |
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| paleoanthropological | (adjective) of or concerned with the scientific study of human fossils | - |
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| paleocortical | (adjective) of or relating to the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum | - |
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| paleontological | (adjective) of or relating to paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontological |
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| panegyrical | (adjective) formally expressing praise | Synonyms: encomiastic, eulogistic, panegyric |
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| panoptical | (adjective) including everything visible in one view | Synonyms: panoptic |
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| pantropical | (adjective) distributed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: pantropic |
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| papistical | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, popish, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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| parabolical | (adjective) resembling or expressed by parables | Synonyms: parabolic |
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| (adjective) having the form of a parabola | Synonyms: parabolic |
| paradisaical | (adjective) relating to or befitting Paradise | Synonyms: paradisaic, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisiacal |
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| paradoxical | (adjective) seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true | Synonyms: self-contradictory |
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| paralytical | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of paralysis | Synonyms: paralytic |
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| paramedical | (adjective) of or denoting a person who is trained to assist physicians and nurses in their activities | - |
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| parapsychological | (adjective) beyond normal physical explanation | - |
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| parasitical | (adjective) relating to or caused by parasites | Synonyms: parasitic |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, leechlike, parasitic |
| parenthetical | (adjective) qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses | Synonyms: parenthetic |
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| pathological | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of pathology | Synonyms: pathologic |
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| (adjective) caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition | - |
| (adjective) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology | Synonyms: diseased, morbid, pathologic |
| patristical | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristic |
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| pedagogical | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogic |
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| periodical | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodic |
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| phantasmagorical | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, surreal, surrealistic |
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| pharisaical | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pietistic, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
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| pharmaceutical | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment | - |
| pharmacological | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacology | Synonyms: pharmacologic |
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| phenotypical | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a phenotype | Synonyms: phenotypic |
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| philatelical | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelic |
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| philological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with philology | - |
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| philosophical | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophic |
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| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophic |
| phlegmatical | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatic |
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| phonological | (adjective) of or relating to phonology | Synonyms: phonologic |
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| photochemical | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the effects of light on chemical systems | - |
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| photoelectrical | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectric |
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| photomechanical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving various methods of using photography to make plates for printing | - |
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| photometrical | (adjective) of or relating to photometry | Synonyms: photometric |
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| phrenological | (adjective) of or relating to phrenology | - |
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| physical | (adjective) involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy; especially physics | - |
| (adjective) characterized by energetic bodily activity | - |
| (adjective) impelled by physical force especially against resistance | Synonyms: forcible, strong-arm |
| (adjective) having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses | - |
| (adjective) according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter) | - |
| (adjective) concerned with material things | - |
| physicochemical | (adjective) relating to physical chemistry | - |
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| physiological | (adjective) of or relating to the biological study of physiology | - |
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| (adjective) of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning | Synonyms: physiologic |
| pietistical | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistic |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| piratical | (adjective) characteristic of pirates | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of piracy | - |
| plutocratical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratic |
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| poetical | (adjective) of or relating to poetry | Synonyms: poetic |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting poetry | Synonyms: poetic |
| polemical | (adjective) of or involving dispute or controversy | Synonyms: polemic |
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| political | (adjective) involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the profession of governing | - |
| pontifical | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: episcopal |
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| (adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, papal |
| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous |
| postbiblical | (adjective) subsequent to biblical times | - |
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| practical | (adjective) concerned with actual use or practice | - |
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| (adjective) having or put to a practical purpose or use | - |
| (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, pragmatic |
| (adjective) being actually such in almost every respect | Synonyms: virtual |
| pragmatical | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatic |
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| (adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatic |
| preclinical | (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: presymptomatic |
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| prehistorical | (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistoric |
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| premedical | (adjective) preparing for the study of medicine | - |
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| (adjective) preceding and preparing for the study of medicine | - |
| problematical | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, tough |
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| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: debatable, problematic |
| prophetical | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetic |
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| prototypical | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypic |
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| protozoological | (adjective) concerning the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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| psychiatrical | (adjective) relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry | Synonyms: psychiatric |
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| psychical | (adjective) affecting or influenced by the human mind | Synonyms: psychic |
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| (adjective) outside the sphere of physical science | Synonyms: psychic |
| psychoanalytical | (adjective) of or relating to or incorporating the methods and theory of psychiatric treatment originated by Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: psychoanalytic |
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| psychological | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by psychology | - |
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| (adjective) mental or emotional as opposed to physical in nature | - |
| psychopathological | (adjective) suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder | Synonyms: psychopathic, psychopathologic |
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| psychopharmacological | (adjective) of or relating to psychopharmacology | - |
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| pteridological | (adjective) of or relating to the study of ferns | - |
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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 |
| pyramidical | (adjective) resembling a pyramid | Synonyms: pyramidal, pyramidic |
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| pyrochemical | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by chemical reactions at high temperatures | - |
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| pyroelectrical | (adjective) relating to or exhibiting pyroelectricity | Synonyms: pyroelectric |
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| pyrotechnical | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of making fireworks | Synonyms: pyrotechnic |
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| quizzical | (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: questioning |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: mocking, teasing |
| rabbinical | (adjective) of or relating to rabbis or their teachings | Synonyms: rabbinic |
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| radical | (adjective) especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root | - |
| (adjective) arising from or going to the root or source | - |
| (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: extremist, ultra |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: revolutionary |
| radiological | (adjective) of or relating to radiology | - |
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| rheological | (adjective) of or relating to rheology | Synonyms: rheologic |
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| rhetorical | (adjective) given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to rhetoric | - |
| rhythmical | (adjective) recurring with measured regularity | Synonyms: rhythmic |
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| sabbatical | (adjective) of or relating to sabbatical leave | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Sabbath | Synonyms: sabbatic |
| satirical | (adjective) exposing human folly to ridicule | Synonyms: satiric |
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| satyrical | (adjective) of or relating to or having the characteristics of a satyr | Synonyms: satyric |
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| scatological | (adjective) dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions | - |
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| sceptical | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, questioning, skeptical |
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| (adjective) denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion | Synonyms: disbelieving, skeptical, unbelieving |
| schismatical | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in or characteristic of schism | Synonyms: schismatic |
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| seismological | (adjective) of or concerned with seismology | Synonyms: seismologic |
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| semiautobiographical | (adjective) of or relating to a work that combines autobiography and fiction | - |
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| semiempirical | (adjective) relying to some extent on observation or experiment | - |
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| semiotical | (adjective) of or relating to semiotics | Synonyms: semiotic |
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| semipolitical | (adjective) political in some (but not all) aspects | - |
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| semitropical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of conditions in the subtropics | Synonyms: semitropic, subtropic, subtropical |
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