| pleading | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, imploring |
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| pleasant | (adjective) affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings | - |
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| (adjective) (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior | - |
| pleased | (adjective) experiencing or manifesting pleasure | - |
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| (adjective) feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth | Synonyms: proud of |
| pleasing | (adjective) giving pleasure and satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) pleasant or agreeable to the senses | - |
| pleasurable | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, gratifying |
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| plebeian | (adjective) of or associated with the great masses of people | Synonyms: common, unwashed, vulgar |
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| pledged | (adjective) bound by or as if by an oath | Synonyms: sworn |
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| plenary | (adjective) full in all respects | - |
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| plenteous | (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, copious, plentiful, rich |
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| plentiful | (adjective) producing in abundance | Synonyms: bountiful |
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| (adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, copious, plenteous, rich |
| (adjective) existing in great number or quantity | - |
| pleochroic | (adjective) of or relating to or having pleochroism | - |
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| pleomorphic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by pleomorphism | - |
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| pleonastic | (adjective) repetition of same and identical sense with different and non-identical words | Synonyms: redundant, tautologic, tautological |
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| plethoric | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, rife |
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| pleural | (adjective) of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax | - |
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| pleurocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches | - |
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| pliable | (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, flexible, pliant |
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| (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliant, waxy |
| (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliant, tensile, tractile |
| (adjective) susceptible to being led or directed | Synonyms: fictile |
| pliant | (adjective) able to adjust readily to different conditions | Synonyms: elastic, flexible, pliable |
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| (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: bendable, pliable, waxy |
| (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, tensile, tractile |
| (adjective) capable of being influenced or formed | Synonyms: plastic |
| plodding | (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: leaden |
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| plotted | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: aforethought, planned |
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| ploughed | (adjective) (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow | Synonyms: plowed |
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| plowed | (adjective) (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow | Synonyms: ploughed |
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| plucked | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum | - |
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| (adjective) having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl | - |
| 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 |
| plugged | (adjective) (of a coin) altered by the insertion of a plug of base metal | - |
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| (adjective) completely obstructed or closed off | Synonyms: blocked |
| plumaged | (adjective) having or covered in plumage; often used as a combining form | - |
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| plumate | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumed, plumose |
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| plumb | (adjective) exactly vertical | - |
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| plumbable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: fathomable, soundable |
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| plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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| plumbic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of lead | Synonyms: plumbous |
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| plumbous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of lead | Synonyms: plumbic |
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| plumed | (adjective) (of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume | Synonyms: crested |
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| (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumose |
| (adjective) having or covered with or abounding in plumes | Synonyms: plumy |
| plumelike | (adjective) resembling a plume | Synonyms: plumy |
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| plumlike | (adjective) resembling a plum fruit | - |
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| plummy | (adjective) (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich | - |
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| (adjective) very desirable | - |
| plumose | (adjective) having an ornamental plume or feathery tuft | Synonyms: plumate, plumed |
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| plump | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: chubby, embonpoint |
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| plumping | (adjective) very large; of exceptional size for its kind | - |
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| 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 |
| plundered | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, ransacked |
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| plundering | (adjective) given to taking by force what is desired | - |
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| pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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| plural | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units | - |
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| (adjective) composed of more than one member, set, or kind | - |
| pluralistic | (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism | - |
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| plus | (adjective) on the positive side or higher end of a scale | - |
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| (adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: positive |
| plush | (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, plushy |
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| plushy | (adjective) (of textures) resembling plush | Synonyms: plush-like |
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| (adjective) characterized by extravagance and profusion | Synonyms: lavish, lucullan, plush |
| plutocratic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratical |
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| plutocratical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratic |
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| plutonic | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: irruptive |
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| pneumatic | (adjective) of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas) | - |
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| pneumococcal | (adjective) of or derived from or caused by bacteria of the genus pneumococcus | - |
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| pneumogastric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the vagus nerve | Synonyms: vagal |
| pneumonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pulmonary, pulmonic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by or affected by pneumonia | - |
| poached | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: boiled, stewed |
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| pocked | (adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease | Synonyms: pockmarked |
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| (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pockmarked, potholed |
| pocketable | (adjective) small enough to be carried in a garment pocket | Synonyms: pocket-size, pocket-sized |
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| pockmarked | (adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease | Synonyms: pocked |
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| (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, potholed |
| podgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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| podlike | (adjective) resembling a pod | - |
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| poetic | (adjective) of or relating to poetry | Synonyms: poetical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to poets | - |
| (adjective) characterized by romantic imagery | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting poetry | Synonyms: poetical |
| poetical | (adjective) of or relating to poetry | Synonyms: poetic |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting poetry | Synonyms: poetic |
| poignant | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, touching |
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| (adjective) keenly distressing to the mind or feelings | - |
| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| pointed | (adjective) having a point | - |
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| (adjective) direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant | - |
| pointillist | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillistic |
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| pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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| pointless | (adjective) not having a point especially a sharp point | Synonyms: unpointed |
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| (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, hitless, scoreless |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| poised | (adjective) marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action | - |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, equanimous, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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| (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
| (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
| 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 |
| polar | (adjective) of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles | - |
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| (adjective) located at or near or coming from the earth's poles | - |
| (adjective) having a pair of equal and opposite charges | - |
| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy |
| (adjective) being of crucial importance | Synonyms: pivotal |
| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, opposite |
| polarographic | (adjective) of or involving polarography | - |
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| polemic | (adjective) of or involving dispute or controversy | Synonyms: polemical |
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| polemical | (adjective) of or involving dispute or controversy | Synonyms: polemic |
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| polemoniaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Polemoniaceae | - |
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| polished | (adjective) perfected or made shiny and smooth | - |
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| (adjective) (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed | Synonyms: milled |
| (adjective) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience | Synonyms: refined, urbane |
| (adjective) (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth | Synonyms: dressed |
| polite | (adjective) showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc. | - |
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| (adjective) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others | Synonyms: civil |
| (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel |
| politic | (adjective) marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness | - |
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| (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: bland, smooth, suave |
| political | (adjective) involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to the profession of governing | - |
| polluted | (adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: contaminated |
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| pollyannaish | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, upbeat |
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| poltroon | (adjective) characterized by complete cowardliness | - |
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| polyandrous | (adjective) having more than one husband at a time | - |
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| polyatomic | (adjective) of or relating to a molecule made up of more than two atoms | - |
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| polychromatic | (adjective) (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) composed of more than one wavelength | - |
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| (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromic |
| polychrome | (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychromatic, polychromic |
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| polychromic | (adjective) having or exhibiting many colors | Synonyms: polychromatic, polychrome |
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| polycrystalline | (adjective) composed of aggregates of crystals | - |
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| polydactyl | (adjective) of or relating to a person (or other vertebrate) having more than the normal number of digits | Synonyms: polydactylous |
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| polydactylous | (adjective) of or relating to a person (or other vertebrate) having more than the normal number of digits | Synonyms: polydactyl |
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| polyestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyoestrous |
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| polygamous | (adjective) having more than one mate at a time; used of relationships and individuals | - |
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| (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: heteroicous, polyoicous |
| polygenic | (adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes | - |
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| polyglot | (adjective) having a command of or composed in many languages | - |
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| polygonal | (adjective) having many sides or relating to a surface marked by polygons | - |
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| polygynous | (adjective) having more than one wife at a time | - |
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