| 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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| pretty | (adjective) (used ironically) unexpectedly bad | - |
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| (adjective) pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing | - |
| pricey | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricy |
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| prickly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, splenetic, waspish |
| pricy | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricey |
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| priestly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestlike |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal |
| 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 | - |
| princely | (adjective) having the rank of or befitting a prince | - |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, sumptuous |
| prissy | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish |
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| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| privy | (adjective) (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known | - |
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| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: secluded, secret |
| 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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| prongy | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged |
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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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| prosy | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, pedestrian, prosaic |
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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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| pudgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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| puffy | (adjective) being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing | Synonyms: bouffant |
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| (adjective) blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts | Synonyms: gusty |
| (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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| pulpy | (adjective) like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness | Synonyms: squashy |
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| punitory | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitive |
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| punny | (adjective) provoking laughter by means of word play | - |
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| puny | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: runty, shrimpy |
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| (adjective) inferior in strength or significance | - |
| pupillary | (adjective) of or relating to the pupil of the eye | - |
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| pursy | (adjective) breathing laboriously or convulsively | Synonyms: blown, short-winded, winded |
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| pushy | (adjective) marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative | Synonyms: pushful |
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| pussy | (adjective) containing pus | Synonyms: purulent |
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| quaggy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
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| quality | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, prize, select |
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| (adjective) of high social status | - |
| quarterly | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | - |
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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 |
| queasy | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickish |
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| (adjective) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety | Synonyms: anxious, nervous, uneasy, unquiet |
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, sickening, vile |
| queenly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenlike |
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| quincentenary | (adjective) of or relating to a 500th anniversary | Synonyms: quincentennial |
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| quirky | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, offbeat, way-out |
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| rackety | (adjective) uncontrollably noisy | Synonyms: rip-roaring, uproarious |
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| racy | (adjective) designed or suitable for competing in a race | - |
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| (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, risque, spicy |
| (adjective) full of zest or vigor | Synonyms: lively |
| (adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor | Synonyms: full-bodied, rich, robust |
| rainy | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: showery |
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| randy | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, ruttish, steamy, turned on |
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| rangy | (adjective) allowing ample room for ranging | - |
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| (adjective) adapted to wandering or roaming | - |
| (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, gangly, lanky |
| rascally | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: devilish, roguish |
| raspy | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, rasping, rough, scratchy |
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| 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 |
| raunchy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy |
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| (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, obscene, salacious |
| (adjective) earthy and sexually explicit | - |
| reactionary | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionist |
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| ready | (adjective) completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress | - |
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| (adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: quick |
| (adjective) made suitable and available for immediate use | - |
| (adjective) mentally disposed | - |
| (adjective) (of especially money) immediately available | - |
| 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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| reedy | (adjective) having a tone of a reed instrument | Synonyms: wheezy |
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| (adjective) resembling a reed in being upright and slender | Synonyms: reedlike |
| reefy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: shelfy, shelvy, shoaly |
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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) | - |
| resiny | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, tarry |
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| 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 |
| rheumy | (adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid |
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| (adjective) moist, damp, wet (especially of air) | - |
| ribbony | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbonlike |
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| rickety | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, sapless, weak, weakly |
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| (adjective) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets | Synonyms: rachitic |
| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: shaky, wobbly, wonky |
| rimy | (adjective) covered with frost | Synonyms: frosty, rimed |
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| risky | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, wild |
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| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, speculative |
| ritzy | (adjective) luxuriously elegant | - |
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| rocky | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolting, jolty, jumpy, rough |
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| (adjective) full of hardship or trials | Synonyms: rough |
| (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, stony |
| (adjective) liable to rock | - |
| roily | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, turbulent |
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| roomy | (adjective) (of buildings and rooms) having ample space | Synonyms: spacious |
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| ropey | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropy |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropy |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropy, stringy, thready |
| ropy | (adjective) of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong | Synonyms: ropey |
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| (adjective) (British informal) very poor in quality | Synonyms: ropey |
| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, stringy, thready |
| rosy | (adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: fortunate |
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| (adjective) of blush color | Synonyms: blushful |
| (adjective) having the pinkish flush of health | Synonyms: flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked |
| (adjective) reflecting optimism | Synonyms: rose-colored |
| 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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| rowdy | (adjective) disturbing the public peace; loud and rough | Synonyms: raucous |
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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 |
| rubbishy | (adjective) cheap and inferior; of no value | Synonyms: trashy |
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| ruby | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet |
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| ruddy | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, scarlet |
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| (adjective) inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life | Synonyms: florid, rubicund, sanguine |
| 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 |
| ruffianly | (adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: tough |
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| ruly | (adjective) neat and tidy | - |
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| rummy | (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, singular |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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| runny | (adjective) characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape | Synonyms: fluid |
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| runty | (adjective) well below average height | Synonyms: pint-size, pint-sized, sawed-off, sawn-off |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, shrimpy |
| rushy | (adjective) abounding in rushes | - |
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