perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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(adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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pericardiac | (adjective) located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium | Synonyms: pericardial |
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pericardial | (adjective) located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium | Synonyms: pericardiac |
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perigonal | (adjective) of or relating to a perigone | - |
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perilous | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, precarious, touch-and-go |
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perinasal | (adjective) near the nose | Synonyms: perirhinal |
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perinatal | (adjective) occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after) | - |
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perineal | (adjective) of or relating to the perineum | - |
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periodic | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodical |
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(adjective) recurring or reappearing from time to time | Synonyms: occasional |
periodical | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodic |
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periodontal | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics | Synonyms: periodontic |
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periodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics | Synonyms: periodontal |
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peripatetic | (adjective) of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy | Synonyms: Aristotelean, Aristotelian, Aristotelic |
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(adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: wayfaring |
peripheral | (adjective) on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area | - |
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(adjective) related to the key issue but not of central importance | - |
periphrastic | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory |
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peripteral | (adjective) having columns on all sides | - |
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perirhinal | (adjective) near the nose | Synonyms: perinasal |
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perishable | (adjective) liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay | - |
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peristylar | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: pseudoperipteral |
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perithelial | (adjective) of or relating to the tissue layer around small blood vessels | - |
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peritoneal | (adjective) of or relating to or affecting the peritoneum | - |
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peritrichous | (adjective) covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella | - |
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periwigged | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: peruked |
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perky | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, chirpy |
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permanent | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: lasting |
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(adjective) not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition | - |
permeable | (adjective) allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through | - |
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permeant | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeating, permeative, pervasive |
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permeating | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeative, pervasive |
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permeative | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, pervasive |
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permed | (adjective) (of hair) styled with permanent waves | - |
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permissible | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: allowable |
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(adjective) that may be accepted or conceded | - |
permissive | (adjective) granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline | - |
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(adjective) not preventive | - |
permutable | (adjective) capable of changing sequence | Synonyms: transposable |
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pernicious | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, subtle |
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(adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent |
pernickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: persnickety |
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peroneal | (adjective) of or relating to the fibula or the outer part of the leg below the knee | - |
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perpendicular | (adjective) intersecting at or forming right angles | - |
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(adjective) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line | Synonyms: vertical |
(adjective) so steep as to be nearly vertical | - |
perpetual | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, unceasing, unremitting |
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(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, unceasing, unending |
perplexed | (adjective) full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment | - |
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perplexing | (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, puzzling |
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persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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persistent | (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: lasting |
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(adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting |
(adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
(adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: haunting |
persisting | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: dogging |
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persnickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: pernickety |
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(adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
personable | (adjective) (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality | - |
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personal | (adjective) concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality | - |
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(adjective) indicating grammatical person | - |
(adjective) of or arising from personality | - |
(adjective) intimately concerning a person's body or physical being | - |
personalised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalized |
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personalized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalised |
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(adjective) pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively | - |
perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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(adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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persuadable | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuasible, suasible |
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persuasible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuadable, suasible |
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persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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pert | (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, irreverent, saucy |
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pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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pertinent | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, apt |
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(adjective) having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand | Synonyms: to the point |
perturbed | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, rattled |
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perturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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peruked | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwigged |
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pervasive | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, permeative |
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perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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(adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
(adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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perverted | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: kinky |
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(adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverse, reprobate |
(adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, twisted |
pervious | (adjective) admitting of passage or entrance | - |
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pesky | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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pessimal | (adjective) of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival | Synonyms: pessimum |
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pessimistic | (adjective) expecting the worst possible outcome | - |
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pessimum | (adjective) of an organism's environment; least favorable for survival | Synonyms: pessimal |
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pestered | (adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: annoyed, harassed, harried, vexed |
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pestering | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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pestiferous | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey |
(adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, perversive |
(adjective) contaminated with infecting organisms | Synonyms: dirty |
pestilent | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
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(adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious |
pestilential | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey |
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pet | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, preferent, preferred |
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petaled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petalled, petalous |
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petalled | (adjective) (of flowers) having petals | Synonyms: petaled, petalous |
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petalless | (adjective) (of flowers) having no petals | Synonyms: apetalous |
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petallike | (adjective) resembling a petal | Synonyms: petal-like |
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petaloid | (adjective) resembling a flower petal | - |
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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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