| perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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| (adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| pilary | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilose, pilous |
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| piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| placatory | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placative |
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| planetary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetal |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: terrestrial |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, world-wide, world, worldwide |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: erratic, wandering |
| plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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| powdery | (adjective) consisting of fine particles | Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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| (adjective) as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder | - |
| precatory | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precative |
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| precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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| precursory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: premonitory |
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| predatory | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predacious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, raiding |
| prefatory | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatorial |
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| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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| preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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| primary | (adjective) of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, elementary |
| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, principal |
| (adjective) not derived from or reducible to something else; basic | - |
| probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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| probatory | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probative |
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| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| prohibitory | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitive |
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| proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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| prolusory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the character of a prolusion | - |
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| promissory | (adjective) relating to or having the character of a promise | - |
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| propitiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, expiatory |
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| (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiative |
| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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| provisory | (adjective) subject to a proviso | - |
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| pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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| punitory | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitive |
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| pupillary | (adjective) of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
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| quaternary | (adjective) consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four | Synonyms: quaternate |
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| (adjective) coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 4th, fourth |
| quincentenary | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentennial |
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| reactionary | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionist |
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| recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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| reciprocatory | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocative |
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| (adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocative |
| recriminatory | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminative |
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| redemptory | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptive |
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| reformatory | (adjective) tending to reform | Synonyms: reformative |
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| refractory | (adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: fractious, recalcitrant |
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| (adjective) temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to a process or stimulus | - |
| (adjective) not responding to treatment | Synonyms: stubborn |
| regulatory | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulative |
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| residuary | (adjective) relating to or indicating a remainder | Synonyms: residual |
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| (adjective) entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts) | - |
| respiratory | (adjective) pertaining to respiration | - |
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| retaliatory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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| retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
| revelatory | (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom | Synonyms: apocalyptic, apocalyptical |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, significative, suggestive |
| reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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| revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
| (adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
| rotary | (adjective) relating to or characterized by rotation | - |
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| (adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: circular, orbitual |
| rotatory | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: revolutionary |
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| rubbery | (adjective) having an elastic texture resembling rubber in flexibility or toughness | Synonyms: rubberlike |
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| (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, gristly |
| rudimentary | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: fundamental, underlying |
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| (adjective) being in the earliest stages of development | - |
| (adjective) not fully developed in mature animals | Synonyms: vestigial |
| salivary | (adjective) of or relating to saliva | - |
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| salutary | (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: good |
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| sandpapery | (adjective) having the abrasive texture of sandpaper | - |
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| sanguinary | (adjective) marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed | Synonyms: bloodthirsty, bloody-minded |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, gory, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| sanitary | (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | Synonyms: healthful |
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| satisfactory | (adjective) giving satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, decent |
| savory | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savoury |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savoury |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savoury, zesty |
| savoury | (adjective) morally wholesome or acceptable | Synonyms: savory |
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| (adjective) having a pleasant taste | Synonyms: mouth-watering, savory |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: piquant, savory, zesty |
| scary | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, shivery, shuddery |
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| secondary | (adjective) being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate | - |
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| (adjective) depending on or incidental to what is original or primary | - |
| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern |
| (adjective) not of major importance | - |
| (adjective) belonging to a lower class or rank | - |
| secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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| sedentary | (adjective) requiring sitting or little activity | - |
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| sedimentary | (adjective) produced by the action of water | Synonyms: aqueous |
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| (adjective) resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment | - |
| semicentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or marking the 50th anniversary | Synonyms: semicentennial |
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| sensory | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | Synonyms: sensorial |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensational |
| (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: centripetal, receptive |
| shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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| shivery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shuddery |
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| (adjective) cold enough to cause shivers | - |
| showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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| shuddery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shivery |
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| silvery | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silverish |
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| (adjective) having the white lustrous sheen of silver | Synonyms: silver, silvern |
| (adjective) resembling or reminiscent of silver | Synonyms: silvern |
| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| slithery | (adjective) having a slippery surface or quality | - |
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| slivery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: splintery |
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| slumbery | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent |
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| solitary | (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, only, sole |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, lonely |
| (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nongregarious, nonsocial |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: lonely, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, lonely |
| somatosensory | (adjective) of or relating to the somatosenses | - |
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| sorry | (adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: bad, regretful |
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| (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad |
| (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim |
| (adjective) without merit; of little or no value or use | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good |
| spidery | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly |
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| splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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| (adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |
| spry | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, quick |
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| stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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| starry | (adjective) abounding with or resembling stars | - |
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| stationary | (adjective) not capable of being moved | - |
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| (adjective) standing still | - |
| statuary | (adjective) of or relating to or suitable for statues | - |
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| statutory | (adjective) relating to or created by statutes | - |
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| (adjective) prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute | - |
| sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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| (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
| stipendiary | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance | - |
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| (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried |
| (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried |
| stipulatory | (adjective) constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement | Synonyms: agreed upon |
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| subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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| sublunary | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunar |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, terrestrial |
| subsidiary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary |
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| sugary | (adjective) containing sugar | - |
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| sultry | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous |
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| (adjective) sexually exciting or gratifying | Synonyms: sensual |
| summary | (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compact, compendious, succinct |
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| (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: drumhead |
| summery | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of or occurring in summer | - |
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| sumptuary | (adjective) regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior | - |
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| sundry | (adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley |
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