precious
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~ characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for; "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted"
precipitant
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~ done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
precipitate
— Adjective
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~ done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
precipitating
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~ bringing on suddenly or abruptly; "the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce"
precipitous
— Adjective
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~ done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
precipitous
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~ extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
precise
— Adjective
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~ (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
precise
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~ sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"
preclinical
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~ 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
preclusive
— Adjective
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~ made impossible
precocial
— Adjective
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~ (of hatchlings) covered with down and having eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days
precocious
— Adjective
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~ appearing or developing early; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias"
precocious
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~ characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement"
precognitive
— Adjective
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~ foreseeing the future
preconceived
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~ (of an idea or opinion) formed beforehand; especially without evidence or through prejudice; "certain preconceived notions"
preconcerted
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~ previously arranged or agreed on; "following preconcerted plans"
preconditioned
— Adjective
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~ having already been put into a suitable condition; "a surface preconditioned to receive paint"; "customers preconditioned to buy a product"
precooked
— Adjective
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~ cooked partially or completely beforehand; "frozen precooked meals from the supermarket"
precooled
— Adjective
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~ cooled in advance
precordial
— Adjective
– English
~ in front of the heart; involving the precordium