Adjectives in english

• prehensile — Adjective – English ～ immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
• prehensile — Adjective – English ～ having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
• prehensile — Adjective – English ～ adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
• prehistoric — Adjective – English ～ no longer fashionable; "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about proper clothes"
• prehistoric — Adjective – English ～ of or relating to times before written history; "prehistoric archeology"
• prehistoric — Adjective – English ～ belonging to or existing in times before recorded history; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples"
• prehistorical — Adjective – English ～ belonging to or existing in times before recorded history; "prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples"
• prejudiced — Adjective – English ～ being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; "a prejudiced judge"
• prejudiced — Adjective – English ～ emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices
• prejudicial — Adjective – English ～ (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
• prejudicial — Adjective – English ～ tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"
• prejudicious — Adjective – English ～ (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
• prejudicious — Adjective – English ～ tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"
• prelapsarian — Adjective – English ～ of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve
• preliminary — Adjective – English ～ denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important; "a preliminary investigation"
• preliterate — Adjective – English ～ used of a society that has not developed writing
• preliterate — Adjective – English ～ not yet having acquired the ability to read and write
• premarital — Adjective – English ～ relating to events before a marriage; "prenuptial agreement"
• premature — Adjective – English ～ born after a gestation period of less than the normal time; "a premature infant"
• premature — Adjective – English ～ too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment"

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