| patricentric | (adjective) centered upon the father | - |
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| patrician | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle |
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| (adjective) befitting a person of noble origin | - |
| patrilineal | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the male line | Synonyms: patrilinear |
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| patrilinear | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the male line | Synonyms: patrilineal |
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| patrimonial | (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, transmissible |
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| patriotic | (adjective) inspired by love for your country | Synonyms: loyal |
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| patristic | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristical |
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| patristical | (adjective) of or relating to the writings of the early church fathers | Synonyms: patristic |
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| patronised | (adjective) having patronage or clients | Synonyms: patronized |
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| patronising | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronizing |
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| patronized | (adjective) having patronage or clients | Synonyms: patronised |
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| patronizing | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronising |
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| patronless | (adjective) having little patronage or few clients | Synonyms: unpatronised, unpatronized |
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| patronymic | (adjective) of or derived from a personal or family name | - |
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| patterned | (adjective) having patterns (especially colorful patterns) | - |
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| paunchy | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, potbellied |
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| paved | (adjective) covered with a firm surface | - |
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| pawky | (adjective) cunning and sly | - |
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| payable | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, collectible |
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| paying | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary |
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| (adjective) yielding a fair profit | Synonyms: gainful, paid |
| peaceable | (adjective) not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | Synonyms: peaceful |
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| (adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: pacific |
| (adjective) inclined or disposed to peace | Synonyms: peace-loving |
| peaceful | (adjective) not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war | Synonyms: peaceable |
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| (adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: passive |
| peacekeeping | (adjective) of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces | - |
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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 |
| peaked | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adjective) having or rising to a peak | - |
| peaky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: spiky |
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| peanut | (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: insignificant |
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| pearlescent | (adjective) having a play of lustrous rainbow colors | Synonyms: iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline |
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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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| peccable | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccant |
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| peccant | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccable |
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| peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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| (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
| pectic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from pectin | - |
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| pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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| pectineal | (adjective) of or relating to the pubis | - |
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| pectoral | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: thoracic |
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| peculiar | (adjective) characteristic of one only; distinctive or special | - |
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| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, special |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| (adjective) markedly different from the usual; special | - |
| pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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| pedagogic | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogical |
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| pedagogical | (adjective) of or relating to pedagogy | Synonyms: pedagogic |
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| pedal | (adjective) of or relating to the feet | - |
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| pedantic | (adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: academic, donnish |
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| pedate | (adjective) of a leaf shape; having radiating lobes, each deeply cleft or divided | - |
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| (adjective) having or resembling a foot | - |
| pederastic | (adjective) of homosexuality between a man and a boy | Synonyms: paederastic |
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| pedestrian | (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, prosaic, prosy |
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| pediatric | (adjective) of or relating to the medical care of children | Synonyms: paediatric |
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| pedigree | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| pedigreed | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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| pedunculate | (adjective) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk | Synonyms: stalked |
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| peeled | (adjective) (used informally) completely unclothed | Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, raw, stark naked |
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| peerless | (adjective) eminent beyond or above comparison | Synonyms: matchless, nonpareil, one, one and only, unmatchable, unmatched, unrivaled, unrivalled |
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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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| peevish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| pejorative | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, dyslogistic |
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| pelagic | (adjective) relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean | Synonyms: oceanic |
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| pelecypod | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypodous |
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| pelecypodous | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: lamellibranch, pelecypod |
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| pellucid | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, perspicuous |
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| (adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, lucid, transparent |
| peltate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example) | Synonyms: shield-shaped |
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| pelvic | (adjective) of or relating to the pelvis | - |
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| pemphigous | (adjective) of or relating to or manifesting pemphigus | - |
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| penal | (adjective) of or relating to punishment | - |
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| (adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: punishable |
| (adjective) serving as or designed to impose punishment | - |
| penciled | (adjective) drawn or written with a pencil | Synonyms: pencilled |
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| pencilled | (adjective) drawn or written with a pencil | Synonyms: penciled |
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| pendant | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendent |
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| pendent | (adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: dependent, pendant |
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| pending | (adjective) awaiting conclusion or confirmation | - |
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| pendulous | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, weeping |
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| penetrable | (adjective) admitting of penetration or passage into or through | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being penetrated | - |
| penetrating | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrative |
| 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 |
| penial | (adjective) of or relating to the penis | Synonyms: penile |
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| penile | (adjective) of or relating to the penis | Synonyms: penial |
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| peninsular | (adjective) of or forming or resembling a peninsula | - |
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| penitent | (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds | Synonyms: repentant |
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| penitential | (adjective) showing or constituting penance | Synonyms: penitentiary |
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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 | - |
| pennate | (adjective) having feathered wings | - |
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| penniless | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penurious, pinched |
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| pensionable | (adjective) entitled to receive a pension | - |
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| 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 |
| pent | (adjective) closely confined | Synonyms: shut up |
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| pentagonal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentangular |
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| pentamerous | (adjective) divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members | - |
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| pentangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentagonal |
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| pentasyllabic | (adjective) having or characterized by or consisting of five syllables | - |
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| pentatonic | (adjective) relating to a pentatonic scale | - |
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| pentavalent | (adjective) having a valence of five | - |
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| pentecostal | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring at Pentecost | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of any of various Pentecostal religious bodies or their members | - |
| penultimate | (adjective) second last | Synonyms: next-to-last |
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| penumbral | (adjective) of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penurious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched |
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| (adjective) excessively unwilling to spend | Synonyms: parsimonious |
| peopled | (adjective) furnished with people | - |
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| 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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| peptic | (adjective) relating to or promoting digestion | - |
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| perambulating | (adjective) strolling or walking around | - |
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| perceivable | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, graspable, intelligible, understandable |
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| (adjective) capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing | - |