pernicious
— Adjective
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~ working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
pernickety
— Adjective
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~ characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
peroneal
— Adjective
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~ of or relating to the fibula or the outer part of the leg below the knee
perpendicular
— Adjective
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~ intersecting at or forming right angles; "the axes are perpendicular to each other"
perpendicular
— Adjective
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~ at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height"
perpendicular
— Adjective
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~ so steep as to be nearly veritcal; "the great perpendicular face of the cliff"
perpetual
— Adjective
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~ uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"
perpetual
— Adjective
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~ continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"
perplexed
— Adjective
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~ full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment; "perplexed language"; "perplexed state of the world"
perplexing
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~ lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"
persevering
— Adjective
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~ quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness; "a diligent (or patient) worker"; "with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business"
Persian
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture; "Iranian mountains"; "Iranian security police"
persistent
— Adjective
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~ retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes"
persistent
— Adjective
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~ stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"
persistent
— Adjective
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~ never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums"
persistent
— Adjective
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~ continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy
persisting
— Adjective
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~ relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit; "impossible to escape the dogging fears"
persnickety
— Adjective
– English
~ characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
persnickety
— Adjective
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~ (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
personable
— Adjective
– English
~ (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality