| petalous | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalled |
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| petite | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, tiny |
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| petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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| petrifying | (adjective) paralyzing with terror | - |
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| petrous | (adjective) (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness | Synonyms: stonelike |
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| petticoated | (adjective) wearing or furnished with a petticoat | - |
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| pettish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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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 |
| petulant | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
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| phagocytic | (adjective) capable of functioning as a phagocyte | - |
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| phalangeal | (adjective) of or relating to the bones of the fingers or toes | - |
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| phallic | (adjective) relating to a phallus especially as an embodiment of generative power | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or being a phallus | Synonyms: priapic |
| phantasmagoric | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phantasmagorical | (adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions | Synonyms: phantasmagoric, surreal, surrealistic |
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| phantasmal | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, spectral, spiritual |
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| phantom | (adjective) something apparently sensed but having no physical reality | - |
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| pharisaic | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
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| pharisaical | (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pietistic, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
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| pharmaceutic | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutical |
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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 | - |
| pharmacologic | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacology | Synonyms: pharmacological |
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| pharmacological | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacology | Synonyms: pharmacologic |
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| pharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the throat | - |
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| phenomenal | (adjective) of or relating to a phenomenon | - |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| phenotypic | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a phenotype | Synonyms: phenotypical |
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| phenotypical | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a phenotype | Synonyms: phenotypic |
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| philanthropic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by philanthropy | - |
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| (adjective) generous in assistance to the poor | Synonyms: beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary |
| philatelic | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelical |
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| philatelical | (adjective) of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists | Synonyms: philatelic |
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| philharmonic | (adjective) composing or characteristic of an orchestral group | - |
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| (adjective) devoted to or appreciative of music | - |
| philhellene | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellenic |
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| philhellenic | (adjective) characterized by a love of Greece and Grecian things | Synonyms: Graecophile, Graecophilic, philhellene |
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| philistine | (adjective) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values | Synonyms: anti-intellectual |
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| philological | (adjective) of or relating to or dealing with philology | - |
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| philosophic | (adjective) of or relating to philosophy or philosophers | Synonyms: philosophical |
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| (adjective) characterized by the attitude of a philosopher; meeting trouble with level-headed detachment | Synonyms: philosophical |
| 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 |
| phlegmatic | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatical |
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| phlegmatical | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatic |
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| phlegmy | (adjective) characterized by phlegm | - |
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| phobic | (adjective) suffering from irrational fears | - |
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| phocine | (adjective) of or relating to seals | - |
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| phonemic | (adjective) of or relating to phonemes of a particular language | - |
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| phonetic | (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonic |
| phoney | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phony |
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| phonic | (adjective) of or relating to speech sounds | Synonyms: phonetic |
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| (adjective) relating to speech | - |
| (adjective) pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading | - |
| phonogramic | (adjective) of or relating to a phonogram | - |
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| phonologic | (adjective) of or relating to phonology | Synonyms: phonological |
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| phonological | (adjective) of or relating to phonology | Synonyms: phonologic |
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| phony | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phoney |
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| phosphorescent | (adjective) emitting light without appreciable heat as by slow oxidation of phosphorous | - |
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| phosphoric | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphorous |
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| phosphorous | (adjective) containing or characteristic of phosphorus | Synonyms: phosphoric |
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| photic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by light | - |
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| photochemical | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by the effects of light on chemical systems | - |
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| photoconductive | (adjective) of or relating to photoconductivity | - |
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| photoelectric | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectrical |
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| photoelectrical | (adjective) of or pertaining to photoelectricity | Synonyms: photoelectric |
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| photoemissive | (adjective) of or relating to photoemission | - |
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| photogenic | (adjective) looking attractive in photographs | - |
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| photographic | (adjective) relating to photography or obtained by using photography | - |
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| (adjective) representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph | - |
| photomechanical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving various methods of using photography to make plates for printing | - |
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| photometric | (adjective) of or relating to photometry | Synonyms: photometrical |
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| photometrical | (adjective) of or relating to photometry | Synonyms: photometric |
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| photosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to visible light | Synonyms: light-sensitive |
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| photosynthetic | (adjective) relating to or using or formed by photosynthesis | - |
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| photovoltaic | (adjective) producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy (especially light) | - |
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| phrasal | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a phrase | - |
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| phreatic | (adjective) of or relating to ground water | - |
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| phrenetic | (adjective) excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion | Synonyms: frantic, frenetic, frenzied |
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| phrenic | (adjective) of or relating to the diaphragm | - |
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| phrenological | (adjective) of or relating to phrenology | - |
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| phyletic | (adjective) of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms | Synonyms: phylogenetic |
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| phylliform | (adjective) having the shape of a leaf | - |
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| phyllodial | (adjective) having a phyllode | - |
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| phylogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms | Synonyms: phyletic |
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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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| physiologic | (adjective) of or consistent with an organism's normal functioning | Synonyms: physiological |
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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 |
| physiotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to or used in physical therapy | - |
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| phytophagic | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagous, phytophilous, plant-eating |
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| phytophagous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophilous, plant-eating |
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| phytophilous | (adjective) (of animals) feeding on plants | Synonyms: phytophagic, phytophagous, plant-eating |
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| pianissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very soft | - |
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| pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
| piano | (adjective) (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone | Synonyms: soft |
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| picaresque | (adjective) involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction | - |
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| picayune | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| pickled | (adjective) (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picky | (adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, fussy, particular |
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| pictographic | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the use of pictographs | - |
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| pictorial | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of pictures | Synonyms: pictural |
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| (adjective) evoking lifelike images within the mind | Synonyms: graphic, lifelike, vivid |
| pictural | (adjective) pertaining to or consisting of pictures | Synonyms: pictorial |
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| pictured | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, portrayed |
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| (adjective) seen in the mind as a mental image | Synonyms: envisioned, visualised, visualized |
| picturesque | (adjective) suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture | - |
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| (adjective) strikingly expressive | - |
| piddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial |
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| piebald | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| piecemeal | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step, stepwise |
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| pied | (adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: calico, motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, varicolored, varicoloured |
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| pierced | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, perforated, punctured |
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