| prepackaged | (adjective) prepared and wrapped beforehand and ready for sale | Synonyms: prepacked |
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| prepacked | (adjective) prepared and wrapped beforehand and ready for sale | Synonyms: prepackaged |
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| prepaid | (adjective) used especially of mail; paid in advance | Synonyms: postpaid |
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| preparative | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparatory, propaedeutic |
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| preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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| prepared | (adjective) made ready or fit or suitable beforehand | - |
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| (adjective) equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources | - |
| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, fain, inclined |
| preponderant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating |
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| preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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| prepositional | (adjective) of or relating to or formed with a preposition | - |
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| prepossessing | (adjective) creating a favorable impression | - |
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| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| preprandial | (adjective) preceding a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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| prepubertal | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubescent |
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| prepubescent | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubertal |
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| prepupal | (adjective) of an inactive stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages | - |
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| prerecorded | (adjective) recorded at one time for transmission later | - |
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| prerequisite | (adjective) required as a prior condition or course of study | - |
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| presbyopic | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: farsighted |
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| prescient | (adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur | - |
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| prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
| prescription | (adjective) available only with a doctor's written prescription | - |
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| prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
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| present | (adjective) temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration | - |
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| (adjective) being or existing in a specified place | - |
| presentable | (adjective) fit to be seen | - |
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| presentational | (adjective) of or relating to a presentation (especially in psychology or philosophy) | - |
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| preservable | (adjective) capable of being preserved | - |
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| preservative | (adjective) tending or having the power to preserve | - |
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| preserved | (adjective) kept intact or in a particular condition | - |
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| (adjective) prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use | - |
| preset | (adjective) set in advance | Synonyms: predetermined |
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| presidential | (adjective) befitting a president | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a president or presidency | - |
| presocratic | (adjective) before the time of Socrates | Synonyms: pre-Socratic |
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| pressed | (adjective) compacted by ironing | - |
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| pressing | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: urgent |
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| pressor | (adjective) increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure | - |
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| prestigious | (adjective) exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige | - |
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| (adjective) having an illustrious reputation; respected | Synonyms: esteemed, honored, honoured |
| prestissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as fast as possible | - |
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| presto | (adjective) (of tempo) very fast | - |
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| presumable | (adjective) capable of being inferred on slight grounds | Synonyms: supposable, surmisable |
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| presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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| (adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
| presumptuous | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assuming, assumptive |
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| presymptomatic | (adjective) of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared | Synonyms: preclinical |
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| preteen | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preadolescent |
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| pretend | (adjective) imagined as in a play | Synonyms: make-believe |
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| pretended | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham |
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| pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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| (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| preternatural | (adjective) surpassing the ordinary or normal | Synonyms: uncanny |
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| (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, transcendental |
| pretorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorian |
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| pretorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, praetorian, pretorial |
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| pretty | (adjective) (used ironically) unexpectedly bad | - |
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| (adjective) pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing | - |
| prevailing | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevalent, rife |
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| prevalent | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, rife |
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| prevenient | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: anticipatory |
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| preventable | (adjective) capable of being prevented | - |
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| preventative | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventive |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| preventive | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventative |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| previous | (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: premature |
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| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, late |
| (adjective) just preceding something else in time or order | Synonyms: old |
| prewar | (adjective) existing or belonging to a time before a war | - |
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| priapic | (adjective) resembling or being a phallus | Synonyms: phallic |
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| (adjective) overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality | - |
| priceless | (adjective) having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth | Synonyms: invaluable |
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| pricey | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricy |
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| prickly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, splenetic, waspish |
| pricy | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: costly, dear, high-priced, pricey |
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| prideful | (adjective) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success | Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| priestlike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestly |
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| priestly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestlike |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal |
| priggish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| prim | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| (adjective) affectedly dainty or refined | Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, twee |
| prima | (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, star, starring, stellar |
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| primaeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primordial |
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| primal | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primeval, primordial |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, fundamental, key |
| primary | (adjective) of first rank or importance or value; direct and immediate rather than secondary | - |
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| (adjective) of or being the essential or basic part | Synonyms: basal, elemental, elementary |
| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, principal |
| (adjective) not derived from or reducible to something else; basic | - |
| prime | (adjective) of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers | - |
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| (adjective) being at the best stage of development | Synonyms: meridian |
| (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prize, quality, select |
| (adjective) used of the first or originating agent | - |
| (adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: premier |
| primed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed | Synonyms: fit, set |
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| primeval | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primordial |
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| primiparous | (adjective) of or relating to a woman who has given birth only once | - |
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| primitive | (adjective) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | - |
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| (adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: naive |
| (adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: archaic |
| (adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: crude, rude |
| primo | (adjective) the best of its kind | - |
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| primordial | (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: aboriginal, primaeval, primal, primeval |
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| princely | (adjective) having the rank of or befitting a prince | - |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, sumptuous |
| principal | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, primary |
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| principled | (adjective) based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality | - |
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| printable | (adjective) fit for publication because free of material that is morally or legally objectionable | - |
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| prior | (adjective) earlier in time | Synonyms: anterior |
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| prismatic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or constituting a prism | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism | - |
| prisonlike | (adjective) resembling a prison | - |
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| prissy | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish |
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| (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
| pristine | (adjective) immaculately clean and unused | - |
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| (adjective) completely free from dirt or contamination | - |
| private | (adjective) confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy | - |
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| (adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: secret |
| (adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: individual |
| (adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: intimate |
| privileged | (adjective) blessed with privileges | - |
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| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inner, inside |
| (adjective) not subject to usual rules or penalties | - |
| privy | (adjective) (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known | - |
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| (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: secluded, secret |
| prize | (adjective) of superior grade | Synonyms: choice, prime, quality, select |
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| prizewinning | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: champion |
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| pro | (adjective) in favor of (an action or proposal etc.) | - |
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| proactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently | - |
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| (adjective) (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens | - |
| probabilistic | (adjective) of or relating to or based on probability | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism | - |
| probable | (adjective) likely but not certain to be or become true or real | - |
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| (adjective) apparently destined | - |
| probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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| probative | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probatory |
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| probatory | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probative |
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| probing | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: inquisitory, searching |
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