Words that rhyme with authoritative

• representative 1
  adj 1: serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play" 2: standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States" [ant: nonrepresentative, unsymbolic] 3: being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives; "representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people" n 1: a person who represents others 2: an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government" [syn: spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice] 3: a member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative] 4: an item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" [syn: example, illustration, instance, representative]
• ablative 0
  adj 1: relating to the ablative case 2: tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature; "ablative material on a rocket cone" n 1: the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb [syn: ablative, ablative case]
• abortive 0
  adj 1: failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President" [syn: abortive, stillborn, unsuccessful]
• additive 0
  adj 1: designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree [syn: linear, additive] [ant: nonlinear] 2: characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process" [ant: subtractive] n 1: something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
• adjudicative 0
  adj 1: concerned with adjudicating [syn: adjudicative, adjudicatory]
• administrative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or responsible for administration
• affricative 0
  n 1: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') [syn: affricate, affricate consonant, affricative]
• aggregative 0
  adj 1: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass]
• alleviative 0
  adj 1: moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative]
• ameliorative 0
  adj 1: tending to ameliorate [syn: ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative]
• anticipative 0
  adj 1: marked by eager anticipation; "an expectant hush" [syn: anticipant, anticipative, expectant]
• appetitive 0
  adj 1: of or relating to appetite; "appetitive needs"
• appreciative 0
  adj 1: feeling or expressive of gratitude; "was appreciative of his efforts"; "an appreciative word" 2: having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion; "appreciative of a beautiful landscape"; "an appreciative laugh from the audience"
• argumentative 0
  adj 1: given to or characterized by argument; "an argumentative discourse"; "argumentative to the point of being cantankerous"; "an intelligent but argumentative child" [ant: unargumentative]
• associative 0
  adj 1: characterized by or causing or resulting from the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination ; "associative learning" [syn: associative, associatory] [ant: nonassociative]
• augmentative 0
  adj 1: increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; "`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'" 2: intensifying by augmentation and enhancement [syn: augmentative, enhancive]
• cogitative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to having capacities for cogitation; "the cogitative faculty" 2: given to cogitation; "he looked at me with cogitative eyes"
• combative 0
  adj 1: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit" [syn: contentious, combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious] 2: striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and agonistic approach" [syn: agonistic, agonistical, combative] 3: having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature" [syn: battleful, bellicose, combative]
• communicative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to communication; "communicative arts" 2: able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: communicative, communicatory] [ant: incommunicative, uncommunicative]
• commutative 0
  adj 1: (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a"
• competitive 0
  adj 1: involving competition or competitiveness; "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position" [syn: competitive, competitory] [ant: noncompetitive] 2: subscribing to capitalistic competition [syn: competitive, free-enterprise(a), private-enterprise(a)] 3: showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy" [syn: competitive, militant]
• connotative 0
  adj 1: having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit [ant: denotative, denotive]
• constitutive 0
  adj 1: constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) [syn: constituent(a), constitutional, constitutive(a), organic]
• constructive 0
  adj 1: constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission" [ant: destructive] 2: emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good; "constructive criticism"
• consultative 0
  adj 1: giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function was purely consultative" [syn: advisory, consultative, consultatory, consultive]
• contemplative 0
  adj 1: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative] n 1: a person devoted to the contemplative life
• creative 0
  adj 1: having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination" [syn: creative, originative] [ant: uncreative] 2: promoting construction or creation; "creative work"
• dative 0
  n 1: the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb [syn: dative, dative case]
• denotative 0
  adj 1: having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming [syn: denotative, denotive] [ant: connotative] 2: in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term [syn: denotative, explicit]
• derogative 0
  adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
• disintegrative 0
  adj 1: tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts [ant: integrative]
• educative 0
  adj 1: resulting in education; "an educative experience"
• evaluative 0
  adj 1: exercising or involving careful evaluations; "looked him over with an appraising eye"; "the literary judge uses many evaluative terms" [syn: appraising(a), evaluative]
• evocative 0
  adj 1: serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant]
• excogitative 0
  adj 1: concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation
• exhortative 0
  adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
• exploitative 0
  adj 1: tending to exploit or make use of [syn: exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive]
• facilitative 0
  adj 1: freeing from difficulty or impediment; "facilitative changes in the economic structure"
• facultative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the mental faculties 2: able to exist under more than one set of conditions; "a facultative parasite can exist as a parasite or a saprophyte" [ant: obligate] 3: granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something; "a facultative enactment" 4: not compulsory; "facultative courses in the sciences"
• frequentative 0
  n 1: a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action
• fricative 0
  adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident] n 1: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract [syn: fricative consonant, fricative, spirant]
• hortative 0
  adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
• imitative 0
  adj 1: marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being" [ant: nonimitative] 2: (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer [syn: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic] [ant: nonechoic] 3: not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince" [syn: counterfeit, imitative] [ant: echt, genuine]
• incommunicative 0
  adj 1: not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions [syn: uncommunicative, incommunicative] [ant: communicative, communicatory]
• indicative 0
  adj 1: relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements; "indicative mood" [syn: indicative, declarative] 2: (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear" [syn: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive] n 1: a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact [syn: indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood]
• instigative 0
  adj 1: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble- rousing, seditious]
• interpretative 0
  adj 1: that provides interpretation [syn: interpretative, interpretive]
• intuitive 0
  adj 1: spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion" 2: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation [syn: intuitive, nonrational, visceral]
• locative 0
  n 1: the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb [syn: locative role, locative]
• meditative 0
  adj 1: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative]
• multiplicative 0
  adj 1: tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree; "the multiplicative tendency of proportional representation"
• native 0
  adj 1: characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin; "the native North American sugar maple"; "many native artists studied abroad" [ant: foreign, strange] 2: belonging to one by birth; "my native land"; "one's native language" [ant: adopted, adoptive] 3: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia" [syn: native, aboriginal] [ant: nonnative] 4: as found in nature in the elemental form; "native copper" n 1: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal] 2: a person born in a particular place or country; "he is a native of Brazil" 3: indigenous plants and animals
• negative 0
  adj 1: characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; "a negative outlook on life"; "a colorless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"; "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign" [ant: neutral, positive] 2: expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial [ant: affirmative, affirmatory] 3: having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life" 4: not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; "the HIV test was negative" [syn: negative, disconfirming] [ant: confirming, positive] 5: reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive; "negative interest rates" [ant: positive] 6: less than zero; "a negative number" 7: designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism" [syn: damaging, negative] 8: having a negative charge; "electrons are negative" [syn: negative, electronegative, negatively charged] 9: involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors" [syn: minus, negative] n 1: a reply of denial; "he answered in the negative" [ant: affirmative] 2: a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed v 1: vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill" [syn: veto, blackball, negative]
• palliative 0
  adj 1: moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative] n 1: remedy that alleviates pain without curing [syn: palliative, alleviant, alleviator]
• predicative 0
  adj 1: of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence; "`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'" [ant: attributive, prenominal]
• prerogative 0
  n 1: a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right]
• preventative 0
  adj 1: tending to prevent or hinder [syn: preventive, preventative] [ant: permissive] 2: preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug" [syn: preventive, preventative, prophylactic] n 1: remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; "the doctor recommended several preventatives" [syn: preventive, preventative, prophylactic] 2: any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference] 3: an agent or device intended to prevent conception [syn: contraceptive, preventive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device]
• probative 0
  adj 1: tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation; "evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect" [syn: probative, probatory]
• procreative 0
  adj 1: producing new life or offspring; "the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"; "the reproductive or generative organs" [syn: generative, procreative, reproductive]
• prohibitive 0
  adj 1: tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive" [syn: prohibitive, prohibitory]
• provocative 0
  adj 1: serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope [ant: unprovocative, unprovoking] 2: exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"
• purgative 0
  adj 1: strongly laxative [syn: cathartic, evacuant, purgative] n 1: a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels [syn: purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient]
• putative 0
  adj 1: purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the putative author of the book"
• qualitative 0
  adj 1: involving distinctions based on qualities; "qualitative change"; "qualitative data"; "qualitative analysis determines the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture" [ant: quantitative] 2: relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities
• quantitative 0
  adj 1: expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement; "export wheat without quantitative limitations"; "quantitative analysis determines the amounts and proportions of the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture" [ant: qualitative] 2: relating to the measurement of quantity; "quantitative studies" 3: (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables; "in typical Greek and Latin verse of the classical period the rhymic system is based on some arrangement of long and short elements" [ant: accentual, syllabic]
• rehabilitative 0
  adj 1: designed to accomplish rehabilitation; "from a penal to a rehabilitative philosophy"- J.B.Costello; "rehabilitative treatment" [ant: punitive, punitory] 2: helping to restore to good condition; "reconstructive surgery"; "rehabilitative exercises" [syn: reconstructive, rehabilitative]
• repetitive 0
  adj 1: repetitive and persistent; "the bluejay's insistent cry" [syn: insistent, repetitive] 2: characterized by repetition; "repetitive movement" [syn: repetitive, repetitious] [ant: nonrepetitive]
• sedative 0
  adj 1: tending to soothe or tranquilize; "valium has a tranquilizing effect"; "took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed" [syn: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilizing, tranquillizing, tranquilising, tranquillising] n 1: a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person [syn: sedative, sedative drug, depressant, downer]
• talkative 0
  adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky] 2: unwisely talking too much [syn: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative] 3: friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive" [syn: expansive, talkative]
• tentative 0
  adj 1: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule" [syn: probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative] 2: unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative conclusions" [syn: doubtful, tentative]
• uncommunicative 0
  adj 1: not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions [syn: uncommunicative, incommunicative] [ant: communicative, communicatory]
• uncompetitive 0
  adj 1: not inclined to compete
• unrepresentative 0
  adj 1: not exemplifying a class; "I soon tumbled to the fact that my weekends were atypical"; "behavior quite unrepresentative (or atypical) of the profession"
• vegetative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous; "a dull vegetative lifestyle" [syn: vegetative, vegetive] 2: composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor" [syn: vegetal, vegetational, vegetative] 3: relating to involuntary bodily functions; "vegetative functions such as digestion or growth or circulation" 4: (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes [syn: vegetal, vegetative]
• vocative 0
  adj 1: relating to a case used in some languages; "vocative verb endings" n 1: the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed [syn: vocative, vocative case]
• stative 0
  adj 1: ( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action [ant: active, dynamic]
• nonnative 0
  adj 1: not being or composed of aborigines; "the nonnative population of South Africa" [ant: aboriginal, native] 2: of persons born in another area or country than that lived in; "our large nonnative population" [syn: foreign-born, nonnative] 3: of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing
• approbative 0
  adj 1: expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod" [syn: approving, affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive]
• deprecative 0
  adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting] 2: given to expressing disapproval
• irritative 0
  adj 1: (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; "an irritative agent" [syn: irritating, irritative]
• siccative 0
  n 1: a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) [syn: desiccant, drying agent, drier, siccative]
• precative 0
  adj 1: expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures" [syn: precatory, precative]
• annotative 0
• compensative 0
• dedicative 0
• delimitative 0
• desiccative 0
• devastative 0
• ergative 0
• excommunicative 0
• factitive 0
• fermentative 0
• imputative 0
• inhibitive 0
• judicative 0
• limitative 0
• misrepresentative 0
• nuncupative 0
• participative 0
• portative 0

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