Adjectives Beginning with the Letters "pa"

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Below are simple definitions to five of the less common "pa" English adjectives used in the puzzle above:

• painterly 1. Having qualities unique to the art of painting. Similar words: esthetic, esthetical.2. Characterized by the use of color rather than line to represent shapes or to structure a composition. Synonyms: visual, graphic, pictorial. 3. Characteristic of a good painter or good painting. [Derived from "paint", which in turn stems from the Latin word for paint, pingere.]
• palatial 1. Grand or luxurious. 2. Suitable for or like a palace. Synonyms: splendid, luxurious, lavish, extravagant, grand, regal, opulent. Antonym: miserable. [Derives from the Latin word for palace, palatium after "Palatine Hill" where the emperor Augustus built a residence.]
• palliative 1. Soothing anxieties or other intense emotions by making it easier to bear. Synonyms: soothing, alleviative, relaxing, comforting, calming, mollifying, reassuring. 2. Alleviating pain and symptoms without eliminating the cause. Synonyms: analgesic, painkilling, anesthetic, sedative. [Derives from the Latin word palliatus for " to cover, cloak".]
• parlous Fraught with danger, unsafe, uncertain, or difficult; dangerous, risky. As William Shakespeare wrote in "As You Like It, "Thou are in a parlous state, shepherd." [This is an archaic word that dersved from the 14th century shortening and alteration of perilous.]
• pastoral 1. Suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene. 2. Used of idealized country life. 3. Relating to the countryside or to rural life. 4. Relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle. Synonyms: rustic, arcadian, countrified, rural, countryside, idyllic, bucolic. Antonym: urban. [Derived from the Latin word for shepherd, pastor.

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