| piercing | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, sharp |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, stabbing |
| pietistic | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistical |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistical, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| pietistical | (adjective) of or relating to Pietism | Synonyms: pietistic |
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| (adjective) excessively or hypocritically pious | Synonyms: holier-than-thou, pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, sanctimonious, self-righteous |
| piezoelectric | (adjective) relating to or involving piezoelectricity | - |
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| piffling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, trivial |
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| piggish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggy, porcine, swinish |
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| piggy | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, porcine, swinish |
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| pigheaded | (adjective) obstinate and stupid | Synonyms: bullet-headed, bullheaded |
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| pilar | (adjective) of or relating to a hair | - |
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| pilary | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilose, pilous |
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| pillaged | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: despoiled, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, plundered, ransacked |
| pillared | (adjective) having pillars | - |
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| pilose | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilous |
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| pilosebaceous | (adjective) of or relating to a hair follicle and its sebaceous gland | - |
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| pilotless | (adjective) lacking a pilot | - |
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| pilous | (adjective) covered with hairs especially fine soft ones | Synonyms: pilary, pilose |
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| pimpled | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimply, pustulate |
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| pimply | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pustulate |
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| pinchbeck | (adjective) serving as an imitation or substitute | - |
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| pinched | (adjective) as if squeezed uncomfortably tight | - |
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| (adjective) sounding as if the nose were pinched | Synonyms: adenoidal, nasal |
| (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious |
| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, skeletal, wasted |
| pineal | (adjective) relating to the pineal body | - |
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| (adjective) having the form of a pine cone | - |
| pinioned | (adjective) bound fast especially having the arms restrained | - |
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| (adjective) (of birds) especially having the flight feathers | - |
| pink | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pinkish |
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| pinkish | (adjective) of a light shade of red | Synonyms: pink |
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| pinnate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis | Synonyms: pinnated |
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| pinnated | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis | Synonyms: pinnate |
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| pinnatifid | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in broad divisions not separated into distinct leaflets | - |
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| pinnatisect | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in narrow divisions not separated into distinct leaflets | - |
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| pinstriped | (adjective) having very thin stripes | - |
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| pious | (adjective) having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity | - |
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| piquant | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: engaging |
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| (adjective) engagingly stimulating or provocative | Synonyms: salty |
| (adjective) having an agreeably pungent taste | Synonyms: savory, savoury, zesty |
| piratical | (adjective) characteristic of pirates | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of piracy | - |
| piscatorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatory |
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| piscatory | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing | Synonyms: piscatorial |
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| piscine | (adjective) of or relating to fish | - |
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| piscivorous | (adjective) feeding on fishes | - |
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| pissed | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| pistillate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: carpellate |
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| (adjective) having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant | - |
| pitched | (adjective) (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form | - |
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| (adjective) set at a slant | - |
| 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 |
| piteous | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| pithy | (adjective) concise and full of meaning | Synonyms: sententious |
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| pitiable | (adjective) inspiring mixed contempt and pity | Synonyms: pathetic, pitiful |
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| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, poor, wretched |
| pitiful | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) inspiring mixed contempt and pity | Synonyms: pathetic, pitiable |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched |
| pitiless | (adjective) deficient in humane and kindly feelings | Synonyms: unkind |
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| (adjective) without mercy or pity | Synonyms: remorseless, ruthless, unpitying |
| pitted | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed |
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| pituitary | (adjective) of or relating to the pituitary gland | - |
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| pivotal | (adjective) being of crucial importance | Synonyms: polar |
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| pixilated | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, prankish, puckish, wicked |
| pizzicato | (adjective) (of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger | - |
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| placable | (adjective) easily calmed or pacified | - |
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| placating | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placative, placatory |
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| placative | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placatory |
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| placatory | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placative |
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| placeable | (adjective) capable of being recognized | Synonyms: recognisable, recognizable |
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| placed | (adjective) put in position in relation to other things | - |
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| (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | Synonyms: located, set, situated |
| placental | (adjective) pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta | - |
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| placid | (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: quiet, smooth, still, tranquil, unruffled |
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| (adjective) not easily irritated | Synonyms: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered |
| placoid | (adjective) as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks | Synonyms: platelike |
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| plagiarised | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiaristic, plagiarized |
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| plagiaristic | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiarised, plagiarized |
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| plagiarized | (adjective) copied and passed off as your own | Synonyms: plagiarised, plagiaristic |
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| plagioclastic | (adjective) of or relating to plagioclase | - |
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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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| plain | (adjective) not elaborate or elaborated; simple | - |
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| (adjective) lacking patterns especially in color | Synonyms: unpatterned |
| (adjective) free from any effort to soften to disguise | Synonyms: unvarnished |
| (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, palpable, patent, unmistakable |
| (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: sheer, unmingled, unmixed |
| (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented |
| (adjective) lacking in physical beauty or proportion | Synonyms: homely |
| plainspoken | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adjective) using simple and direct language | - |
| plaintive | (adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: mournful |
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| planar | (adjective) involving or having two dimensions | Synonyms: two-dimensional |
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| planate | (adjective) having been flattened | Synonyms: flattened |
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| plane | (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: flat, level |
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| planetal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets | Synonyms: planetary |
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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 |
| plangent | (adjective) loud and resounding | - |
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| planktonic | (adjective) of or relating to plankton | - |
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| planless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, aimless, directionless, rudderless, undirected |
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| planned | (adjective) designed or carried out according to a plan | - |
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| (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: aforethought, plotted |
| planoconcave | (adjective) flat on one side and concave on the other | - |
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| planoconvex | (adjective) flat on one side and convex on the other | - |
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| planographic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving planography | - |
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| plantal | (adjective) of or relating to plants | - |
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| plantar | (adjective) relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot | - |
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| planted | (adjective) set in the soil for growth | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, ingrained |
| plantigrade | (adjective) (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do) | - |
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| plastered | (adjective) (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster | Synonyms: sealed |
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| (adjective) (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance | Synonyms: slicked |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
| plastic | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: fictile, moldable |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: pliant |
| platelike | (adjective) as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks | Synonyms: placoid |
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| platitudinal | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinous |
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| platitudinous | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinal |
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| platonic | (adjective) free from physical desire | - |
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| platyrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrrhine | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrrhinian | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinic |
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| platyrrhinic | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian |
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| plausible | (adjective) apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing | - |
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| (adjective) given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments | - |
| plausive | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, approving |
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| playable | (adjective) capable of or suitable for being played or played on | - |
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| played | (adjective) (of games) engaged in | - |
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| playful | (adjective) full of fun and high spirits | - |
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