| nonmilitary | (adjective) not associated with soldiers or the military | Synonyms: unmilitary |
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| nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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| nonoscillatory | (adjective) not having periodic vibrations | - |
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| nonproprietary | (adjective) not protected by trademark or patent or copyright | - |
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| nonresiny | (adjective) not having resin | Synonyms: non-resinous, non-resiny, nonresinous |
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| nonslippery | (adjective) not slippery; not likely to slip or skid | - |
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| nonvoluntary | (adjective) not subject to the control of the will | Synonyms: involuntary, unvoluntary |
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| nonwoody | (adjective) not woody; not consisting of or resembling wood | - |
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| northeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeast |
| northerly | (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northern |
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| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northern |
| northwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest |
| nosey | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosy, prying, snoopy |
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| nosy | (adjective) offensively curious or inquisitive | Synonyms: nosey, prying, snoopy |
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| noteworthy | (adjective) worthy of attention | Synonyms: notable, remarkable |
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| nubbly | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
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| nubby | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy |
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| nugatory | (adjective) of no real value | - |
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| nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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| nutty | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| (adjective) having the flavor of nuts | Synonyms: nutlike |
| obligatory | (adjective) morally or legally constraining or binding | - |
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| (adjective) required by obligation or compulsion or convention | - |
| oily | (adjective) coated or covered with oil | - |
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| (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy |
| (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oleaginous, sebaceous |
| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| okay | (adjective) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition | Synonyms: all right, cool, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok |
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| olfactory | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactive |
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| only | (adjective) exclusive of anyone or anything else | Synonyms: alone |
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| (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, sole, solitary |
| oozy | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozing, seeping |
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| orderly | (adjective) devoid of violence or disruption | - |
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| (adjective) clean or organized | Synonyms: neat |
| ordinary | (adjective) not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree | - |
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| (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: average |
| ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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| oscillatory | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillating |
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| otherworldly | (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, preternatural, transcendental |
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| outdoorsy | (adjective) characteristic of or suitable to outdoor life | - |
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| overbusy | (adjective) too busy | - |
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| overgreedy | (adjective) excessively gluttonous | Synonyms: too-greedy |
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| overhasty | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous |
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| painterly | (adjective) having qualities unique to the art of painting | - |
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| pally | (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: chummy, matey, palsy-walsy |
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| palmy | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| palpatory | (adjective) relating to or involving palpation | - |
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| paltry | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, miserable |
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| (adjective) not worth considering | Synonyms: negligible, trifling |
| panicky | (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: frightened, panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, terrified |
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| papery | (adjective) of or like paper | Synonyms: chartaceous, paperlike |
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| (adjective) thin and paperlike | - |
| papillary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillose |
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| paramilitary | (adjective) of or relating to a group of civilians organized to function like or to assist a military unit | - |
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| parky | (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold | Synonyms: chilly |
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| parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
| (adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
| participatory | (adjective) affording the opportunity for individual participation | - |
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| pasty | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) resembling paste in color; pallid | Synonyms: pastelike |
| patchy | (adjective) irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc. | - |
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| paunchy | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, potbellied |
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| pawky | (adjective) cunning and sly | - |
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| peachy | (adjective) of something resembling a peach in color | Synonyms: peachy-colored, peachy-coloured |
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| (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, slap-up, smashing, swell |
| peaky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: spiky |
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| pearly | (adjective) of a white the color of pearls | Synonyms: pearly-white |
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| peaty | (adjective) of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat | - |
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| pebbly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, shingly |
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| pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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| penitentiary | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitential |
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| (adjective) used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers | - |
| peppery | (adjective) having the piquant burning taste of peppers | - |
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| peppy | (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, bouncy, spirited, zippy |
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| peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
| (adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
| 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 |
| perky | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, chirpy |
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| pernickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: persnickety |
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| persnickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: pernickety |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
| pesky | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| petty | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, secondary, subaltern |
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| (adjective) contemptibly narrow in outlook | Synonyms: small-minded |
| (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
| phlegmy | (adjective) characterized by phlegm | - |
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| phoney | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phony |
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| phony | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phoney |
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| picky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, particular |
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| piggy | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish |
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| pilary | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilose, pilous |
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| pimply | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pustulate |
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| piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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| pitchy | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, jet, sooty |
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| (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: resinous, resiny, tarry |
| pithy | (adjective) concise and full of meaning | Synonyms: sententious |
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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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| plaguey | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential |
| plaguy | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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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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| plucky | (adjective) marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited | Synonyms: gutsy |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, spunky |
| plummy | (adjective) (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich | - |
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| (adjective) very desirable | - |
| plumy | (adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathered, feathery |
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| (adjective) having or covered with or abounding in plumes | Synonyms: plumed |
| (adjective) resembling a plume | Synonyms: plumelike |
| plushy | (adjective) (of textures) resembling plush | Synonyms: plush-like |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, plush |
| podgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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| pokey | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, poky |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, poky |
| poky | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, pokey |
| poorly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| portly | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: stout |
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| potty | (adjective) slightly intoxicated | Synonyms: tiddly, tipsy |
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| (adjective) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness | Synonyms: enamored, in love, infatuated, smitten, soft on, taken with |
| (adjective) (British informal) trivial | - |
| 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 | - |
| praiseworthy | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, commendable, laudable |
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| preachy | (adjective) inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | - |
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| 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 |