| 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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| problematic | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematical, tough |
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| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: debatable, problematical |
| problematical | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, tough |
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| (adjective) open to doubt or debate | Synonyms: debatable, problematic |
| procaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: prokaryotic |
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| procedural | (adjective) relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | Synonyms: adjective |
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| (adjective) of or relating to procedure | - |
| processed | (adjective) prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process | - |
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| (adjective) freed from impurities by processing | Synonyms: refined |
| (adjective) subjected to a special process or treatment | - |
| processional | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a procession | - |
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| (adjective) intended for use in a procession | - |
| proclaimed | (adjective) declared publicly; made widely known | Synonyms: announced |
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| proconsular | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a proconsul | - |
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| procreative | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, reproductive |
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| procumbent | (adjective) having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots | - |
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| procurable | (adjective) capable of being obtained | Synonyms: getable, gettable, obtainable |
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| prodigal | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, profligate, spendthrift |
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| prodigious | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, surpassing |
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| (adjective) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe | Synonyms: colossal, stupendous |
| (adjective) of momentous or ominous significance | Synonyms: portentous |
| prodromal | (adjective) symptomatic of the onset of an attack or a disease | Synonyms: prodromic |
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| prodromic | (adjective) symptomatic of the onset of an attack or a disease | Synonyms: prodromal |
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| productive | (adjective) producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) | - |
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| (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: generative |
| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, fertile, rich |
| (adjective) yielding positive results | - |
| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| profane | (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: secular |
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| (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, blue |
| (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, sacrilegious |
| (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: unconsecrated, unsanctified |
| profaned | (adjective) treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | Synonyms: violated |
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| professed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: avowed |
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| (adjective) professing to be qualified | - |
| (adjective) claimed with intent to deceive | - |
| professional | (adjective) engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or suitable as a profession | - |
| (adjective) engaged in by members of a profession | - |
| professorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of professors | - |
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| proficient | (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful |
| profitable | (adjective) yielding material gain or profit | - |
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| profitless | (adjective) without profit or reward | - |
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| profligate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous |
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| (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift |
| profound | (adjective) showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth | - |
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| (adjective) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed | Synonyms: unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) of the greatest intensity; complete | - |
| (adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: fundamental |
| (adjective) coming from deep within one | - |
| profuse | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, riotous |
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| progestational | (adjective) preceding and favoring gestation; of or relating to physiological changes associated with ovulation and formation of the corpus luteum | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to progesterone (or to a drug with effects like those of progesterone) | - |
| prognathic | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathous |
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| prognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathic |
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| prognostic | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognosticative |
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| prognosticative | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognostic |
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| progressive | (adjective) favoring or promoting progress | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | - |
| (adjective) advancing in severity | - |
| (adjective) gradually advancing in extent | - |
| (adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist |
| (adjective) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position | - |
| prohibited | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: banned |
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| (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
| prohibitive | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitory |
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| prohibitory | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitive |
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| proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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| projected | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| projectile | (adjective) impelling or impelled forward | - |
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| projecting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| prokaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: procaryotic |
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| prolate | (adjective) having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter | Synonyms: watermelon-shaped |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid |
| proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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| prolific | (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: fertile |
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| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, fertile |
| prolix | (adjective) tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length | Synonyms: verbal |
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| prolonged | (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: elongated, extended, lengthened |
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| (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protracted |
| prolusory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the character of a prolusion | - |
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| prominent | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, salient, spectacular, striking |
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| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, large |
| promiscuous | (adjective) not selective of a single class or person | - |
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| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, sluttish, wanton |
| promising | (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: bright, hopeful |
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| (adjective) showing possibility of achievement or excellence | - |
| promissory | (adjective) relating to or having the character of a promise | - |
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| promotional | (adjective) of or relating to serving as publicity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to advancement | - |
| promotive | (adjective) tending to further or encourage | - |
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| prompt | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, quick, straightaway |
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| (adjective) according to schedule or without delay; on time | - |
| (adjective) ready and willing or quick to act | - |
| promulgated | (adjective) formally made public | Synonyms: published |
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| prone | (adjective) having a tendency (to); often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prostrate |
| pronged | (adjective) having prongs or tines; usually used in combination | Synonyms: tined |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, prongy |
| prongy | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged |
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| pronominal | (adjective) relating to pronouns | - |
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| pronounceable | (adjective) capable of being uttered or pronounced | - |
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| pronounced | (adjective) strongly marked; easily noticeable | Synonyms: marked |
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| proof | (adjective) (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand | - |
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| proofed | (adjective) treated so as to become resistant | - |
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| propaedeutic | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, preparatory |
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| propagandist | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandistic |
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| propagandistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandist |
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| propagative | (adjective) characterized by propagation or relating to propagation | - |
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| propellant | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellent, propelling, propulsive |
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| propellent | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propelling, propulsive |
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| propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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| proper | (adjective) marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness | - |
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| (adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) having all the qualities typical of the thing specified | - |
| (adjective) limited to the thing specified | - |
| propertied | (adjective) owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue | Synonyms: property-owning |
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| propertyless | (adjective) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers | Synonyms: blue-collar, wage-earning, working-class |
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| prophetic | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetical |
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| prophetical | (adjective) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | Synonyms: prophetic |
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| prophylactic | (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, preventive |
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| (adjective) warding off | Synonyms: cautionary |
| (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, contraceptive |
| propitiative | (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiatory |
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| propitiatory | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiative, expiatory |
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| (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiative |
| propitious | (adjective) presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success | - |
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| proportionable | (adjective) proportionate | - |
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| proportional | (adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) having a constant ratio | - |
| proportionate | (adjective) being in due proportion | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, symmetrical |
| (adjective) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree | - |
| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| proprioceptive | (adjective) of or relating to proprioception | - |
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| propulsive | (adjective) having the power to propel | - |
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| (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propelling |
| prosaic | (adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous |
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| (adjective) lacking wit or imagination | Synonyms: earthbound, pedestrian, prosy |
| (adjective) not fanciful or imaginative | Synonyms: matter-of-fact |
| proscribed | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| prosodic | (adjective) of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing | - |
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| prospective | (adjective) of or concerned with or related to the future | - |
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| prospering | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| prosperous | (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: golden, halcyon |
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| (adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, lucky |
| (adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, easy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
| (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, roaring, thriving |