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parliamentary, adj. 1. legislative, legislatorial, congressional, senatorial, Senate, House, synodical; lawmaking, law-giving, governmental.
2. democratic, representative, republican; orderly, by the rules, by the book, by Roberts Rules of Order.
parlor, n. 1. living room, sitting room, front room, drawing room, salon; lounge, smoking room, reading room, study, den; reception or visiting or visitors' room or area, locutorium, waiting room, anteroom, antechamber, lobby, vestibule, foyer.
2. shop, store, establishment, business, place of business, office.
parochial, adj. 1. provincial, regional, microcultur-al, small-town, local; regionalistic, Sociol. ethnocentric, insular; limited, confined, constricted, illiberal, uncatholic, noneclectic; small-minded, little-minded, narrow-minded, mean-minded; short-sighted, myopic, near-sighted, wearing blinders or blinkers, not able to see beyond the end of one's nose; deaf, unhearing, deaf to reason or new ideas; narrow, restricted, circumscribed, hidebound; intolerant, bigoted, prejudiced, biased, unable to walk in the other person's shoes or moccasins, unsympathetic, unempathetic; opinionated, dogmatic, one-sided, partial, close-minded; stiff, rigid, set, set in one's ways, stiff-necked, stiff-backed; petty, small, little.
2. unsophisticated, uncultivated, uncultured, gauche, backward, countryish; traditional, conventional, unprogressive, old-fashioned, backward-looking, straitlaced, Inf. grannyish; rooted, settled, unchanging, unchangeable, immovable, intractable, uncompromising; smug, complacent, self-righteous, sanctimonious; Inf. stick-in-the-mud, fogyish, conservative, opposed to change; Inf. stuffy, Sl. square, Sl. straight; uninteresting, dull, vapid, Sl. no pizzazz,
parodist, n. satirist, ironist, lampooner, pasquinader, caricaturist, burlesquer, mocker; mimic, mime, pantomime, impersonator; comic, wit; writer, author, essayist, critic.
parody, n. take-off, spoof, Sl. put-on, Brit, send-up, amphigory; satire, lampoon, pasquinade, burlesque, caricature, exaggeration, mockery, travesty; imitation, apery, mimicry.
parole, n. 1. Penology, conditional release, probation, trial period, furlough, leave, leave of absence.
2. word of honor, promise, solemn promise; pledge, vow, avowal, Archaic, plight, oath, word, solemn word; assurance, undertaking, guarantee, warrant; gentlemen's agreement, handshake; covenant, compact, agreement.
paroxysm, n. 1. fit, convulsion, Pathol, eclampsia, spasm, Pathol, tetanus, throe, qualm, Pathol, jactation; attack, seizure, epilepsy, spell, stroke, Pathol, ictus, tantrum; tremor, shakes, quavering, twitching; cramp, charley horse, contraction, orgasm; outbreak, outburst, storm, explosion, eruption, upheaval, explosion, flare-up.
2. agitation, excitement, frenzy, furor, Pathol. phrenitis, Inf. dither, Inf. tizzy, Inf. stew, ferment; tempestuousness, turbulence, boisterousness, rage, fume, fury, Inf. conniption, Inf. cat fit; violent emotion, emotional upheaval, pique, huff, dudgeon; raving, hysterics, delirium, delirium tremens, Pathol. calenture, tarantism.
parquet, n. 1. inlaid flooring, patterned floor, tile floor, tesselated floor.
2. front seats, orchestra; (esp. in U.S.) theater seats, seating, audience.
parquetry, n. marquetry, mosaic work, tiling, tesse-lation, patterned inlay, floor inlay, checkering; ornamentation, decoration.
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