polyhedral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a polyhedron | - |
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polymeric | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a polymer | - |
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polymorphemic | (adjective) consisting of two or more morphemes | - |
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polymorphic | (adjective) relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population | Synonyms: polymorphous |
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(adjective) relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms | Synonyms: polymorphous |
(adjective) having or occurring in several distinct forms | Synonyms: polymorphous |
polymorphous | (adjective) relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population | Synonyms: polymorphic |
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(adjective) relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms | Synonyms: polymorphic |
(adjective) having or occurring in several distinct forms | Synonyms: polymorphic |
polynomial | (adjective) having the character of a polynomial | Synonyms: multinomial |
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polyoestrous | (adjective) having more than one period of estrus per year | Synonyms: polyestrous |
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polyoicous | (adjective) having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant | Synonyms: heteroicous, polygamous |
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polypetalous | (adjective) having a corolla composed of many separated or distinct petals | - |
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polyphase | (adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle | Synonyms: multiphase |
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polyphonic | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: contrapuntal |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonous |
(adjective) having two or more phonetic values | - |
polyphonous | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by polyphony | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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polyploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes | - |
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polysemantic | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemous |
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polysemous | (adjective) of words; having many meanings | Synonyms: polysemantic |
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polysyllabic | (adjective) (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables | Synonyms: sesquipedalian |
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(adjective) having or characterized by words of more than three syllables | - |
polysynthetic | (adjective) forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning | Synonyms: agglutinative |
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polytheistic | (adjective) worshipping or believing in more than one god | - |
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polytonal | (adjective) using more than one key or tonality simultaneously | - |
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polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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polyvalent | (adjective) having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher | Synonyms: multivalent |
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(adjective) containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen | - |
pomaded | (adjective) (of hair) groomed with pomade | - |
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pompous | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: ceremonious |
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(adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous |
ponderable | (adjective) capable of being weighed or considered | - |
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(adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: cogitable |
pondering | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative |
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ponderous | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, lumbering |
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(adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness | - |
(adjective) labored and dull | - |
pontifical | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: episcopal |
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(adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, papal |
(adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous |
poor | (adjective) having little money or few possessions | - |
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(adjective) lacking in quality or substances | - |
(adjective) characterized by or indicating poverty | - |
(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, short |
(adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched |
poorly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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pop | (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: popular |
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popeyed | (adjective) having bulging eyes | - |
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(adjective) with eyes or mouth open in surprise | Synonyms: goggle-eyed, openmouthed |
popish | (adjective) of or relating to or supporting Romanism | Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, R.C., Roman, Roman Catholic, Romanist, romish |
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popliteal | (adjective) of or relating to the area behind the knee joint | - |
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poppin | (adjective) Of an event that is taking place and is lively | - |
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popular | (adjective) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public | - |
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(adjective) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large | - |
(adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: pop |
(adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: democratic |
populated | (adjective) furnished with inhabitants | - |
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populous | (adjective) densely populated | Synonyms: thickly settled |
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porcine | (adjective) relating to or suggesting swine | - |
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(adjective) repellently fat | Synonyms: gross |
(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish |
poriferous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: porous |
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pornographic | (adjective) designed to arouse lust | Synonyms: adult |
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porose | (adjective) forming a continuous series of pores | - |
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porous | (adjective) full of pores or vessels or holes | Synonyms: poriferous |
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(adjective) allowing passage in and out | Synonyms: holey |
(adjective) able to absorb fluids | - |
porphyritic | (adjective) (of rocks) consisting of porphyry or containing large crystals in a fine groundmass of minerals | - |
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port | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: larboard |
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portable | (adjective) easily or conveniently transported | - |
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(adjective) of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat's hull | - |
portentous | (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical |
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(adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, foreboding |
(adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: prodigious |
porticoed | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, amphistylar |
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portly | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: stout |
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portrayed | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, pictured |
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posed | (adjective) arranged for pictorial purposes | - |
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posh | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, swish |
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positionable | (adjective) capable of being positioned | - |
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positional | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by position | - |
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positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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positive | (adjective) characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. | - |
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(adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: confirming |
(adjective) reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion | - |
(adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positivist, positivistic |
(adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: plus |
(adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, convinced |
(adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: electropositive, positively charged |
(adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, overconfident |
(adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: prescribed |
(adjective) greater than zero | - |
(adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, irrefutable |
positivist | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivistic |
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positivistic | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivist |
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possessed | (adjective) of, pertaining to, or like a demon or possession by a demon | Synonyms: demoniac, demoniacal |
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(adjective) influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion | Synonyms: obsessed |
possessive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: genitive |
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(adjective) desirous of owning | - |
(adjective) having or showing a desire to control or dominate | - |
possible | (adjective) capable of happening or existing | - |
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(adjective) existing in possibility | Synonyms: potential |
postal | (adjective) of or relating to the system for delivering mail | - |
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postbiblical | (adjective) subsequent to biblical times | - |
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postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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postdoctoral | (adjective) of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed | - |
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posted | (adjective) publicly displayed | - |
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posterior | (adjective) located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure | - |
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(adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, ulterior |
postexilic | (adjective) of or relating to the period in Jewish history after 539 BC (after the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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postglacial | (adjective) relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period | - |
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postgraduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: graduate |
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posthumous | (adjective) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | - |
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postictal | (adjective) pertaining to the period following a seizure or convulsion | - |
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postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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postmenopausal | (adjective) subsequent to menopause | - |
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postmeridian | (adjective) after midday | - |
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postmillennial | (adjective) of or relating to the period following the millennium | - |
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postmodern | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodernist |
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postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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postmortal | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortem |
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postmortem | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortal |
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(adjective) after death or after an event | - |
postnatal | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postpartum |
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postnuptial | (adjective) relating to events after a marriage | - |
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postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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postpaid | (adjective) used especially of mail; paid in advance | Synonyms: prepaid |
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postpartum | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postnatal |
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postpositive | (adjective) (of a modifier) placed after another word | - |
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postprandial | (adjective) following a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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postulational | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from axioms | Synonyms: axiomatic, axiomatical |
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postural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving posture | - |
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postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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potable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drinkable |
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potbellied | (adjective) having a large belly | Synonyms: abdominous, paunchy |
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potbound | (adjective) (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots | Synonyms: rootbound |
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potent | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: stiff, strong |
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(adjective) (of a male) capable of copulation | Synonyms: virile |
(adjective) having great influence | Synonyms: powerful |
(adjective) having or wielding force or authority | Synonyms: strong |
potential | (adjective) existing in possibility | Synonyms: possible |
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(adjective) expected to become or be; in prospect | Synonyms: likely |
potholed | (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, pockmarked |
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potted | (adjective) of plants; planted or grown in a pot | - |
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(adjective) (British informal) summarized or abridged | - |
(adjective) preserved in a pot or can or jar | - |
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 | - |
pouched | (adjective) having a pouch | - |
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pouchlike | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: bursiform, pouch-shaped, saclike |
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