pastime | (noun) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | Synonyms: interest, pursuit |
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pastis | (noun) similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood | - |
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pastness | (noun) the quality of being past | - |
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pastor | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, rector |
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pastoral | (adjective) of or relating to a pastor | - |
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(adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle | Synonyms: bucolic |
(adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: arcadian, bucolic |
(noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastorale |
(noun) a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) | - |
(noun) a letter from a pastor to the congregation | - |
pastorale | (noun) a musical composition that evokes rural life | Synonyms: idyl, idyll, pastoral |
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pastorate | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorship |
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(noun) pastors collectively | - |
pastorship | (noun) the position of pastor | Synonyms: pastorate |
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pastrami | (noun) highly seasoned cut of smoked beef | - |
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pastry | (noun) any of various baked foods made of dough or batter | - |
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(noun) a dough of flour and water and shortening | Synonyms: pastry dough |
pasturage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasture |
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(noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: herbage |
pasture | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasturage |
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(noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture land, pastureland |
(verb) feed as in a meadow or pasture | Synonyms: browse, crop, graze, range |
(verb) let feed in a field or pasture or meadow | Synonyms: crop, graze |
pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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pasty | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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(adjective) resembling paste in color; pallid | Synonyms: pastelike |
(noun) small meat pie or turnover | - |
(noun) (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers | - |
repast | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: meal |
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spasm | (noun) (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | - |
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(noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: cramp, muscle spasm |
spasmodic | (adjective) occurring in spells and often abruptly | Synonyms: fitful |
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(adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: convulsive, spastic |
spasmodically | (adverb) in spurts and fits | - |
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(adverb) with spasms | Synonyms: jerkily |
spasmolysis | (noun) the relaxation or relief of muscle spasms | - |
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spasmolytic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic, antispasmodic agent |
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spastic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by spasm | - |
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(adjective) suffering from spastic paralysis | - |
(adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: convulsive, spasmodic |
(noun) a person suffering from spastic paralysis | - |
spasticity | (noun) the quality of moving or acting in spasms | - |
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surpass | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount |
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(verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass, pass by, travel by |
(verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: excel, stand out |
(verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, transcend |
surpassing | (adjective) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | Synonyms: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious |
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(adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: transcendent |
surpassingly | (adverb) to an extraordinary degree | Synonyms: passing |
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toothpaste | (noun) a dentifrice in the form of a paste | - |
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trespass | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, usurpation, violation |
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(noun) a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages | - |
(verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, transgress |
(verb) break the law | - |
(verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: intrude |
(verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, transgress |
(verb) make excessive use of | Synonyms: take advantage |
trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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trespassing | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, invasive |
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uncompassionate | (adjective) lacking compassion or feeling for others | - |
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underpass | (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: subway |
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unimpassioned | (adjective) free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness | - |
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unpassable | (adjective) incapable of being passed | Synonyms: impassable |
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unpasteurised | (adjective) not having undergone pasteurization | Synonyms: unpasteurized |
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unpasteurized | (adjective) not having undergone pasteurization | Synonyms: unpasteurised |
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unsurpassable | (adjective) not to be exceeded | - |
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unsurpassed | (adjective) not capable of being improved on | Synonyms: unexceeded, unexcelled |
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