Words that rhyme with constructive

• abortive 0
  adj 1: failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President" [syn: abortive, stillborn, unsuccessful]
• accretive 0
  adj 1: growing by accretion
• adumbrative 0
  adj 1: indistinctly prophetic [syn: adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative]
• alleviative 0
  adj 1: moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative]
• 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"
• appropriative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself
• 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]
• commiserative 0
  adj 1: feeling or expressing sympathy; "made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue"- Kenneth Roberts
• commutative 0
  adj 1: (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a"
• conductive 0
  adj 1: having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity [ant: non- conducting, nonconducting, nonconductive]
• 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]
• counterproductive 0
  adj 1: tending to hinder the achievement of a goal
• 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]
• deductive 0
  adj 1: relating to logical deduction; "deductive reasoning" 2: involving inferences from general principles [ant: inductive]
• 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]
• denunciative 0
  adj 1: containing warning of punishment [syn: comminatory, denunciative, denunciatory]
• destructive 0
  adj 1: causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism" [ant: constructive]
• elucidative 0
  adj 1: that makes clear; "a clarifying example" [syn: clarifying, elucidative]
• expletive 0
  n 1: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss] 2: a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line
• exploitive 0
  adj 1: tending to exploit or make use of [syn: exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive]
• gustative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to gustation [syn: gustatory, gustative, gustatorial]
• illative 0
  adj 1: relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind" [syn: inferential, illative] 2: resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning" [syn: illative, inferential] 3: expressing or preceding an inference; "`therefore' is an illative word"
• illustrative 0
  adj 1: clarifying by use of examples [syn: exemplifying, illustrative] 2: serving to demonstrate [syn: demonstrative, illustrative]
• implicative 0
  adj 1: tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an ancient society"; "an implicative statement" [syn: implicative, suggestive]
• inchoative 0
  adj 1: beginning to develop; "inchoative stages" n 1: aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb [syn: inchoative, inchoative aspect]
• inductive 0
  adj 1: arising from inductance; "inductive reactance" 2: of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion; "inductive reasoning" [ant: deductive] 3: inducing or influencing; leading on; "inductive to the sin of Eve"- John Milton [syn: inductive, inducive]
• innovative 0
  adj 1: ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" [syn: advanced, forward-looking, innovative, modern] 2: being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; "stylistically innovative works"; "innovative members of the artistic community"; "a mind so innovational, so original" [syn: innovative, innovational, groundbreaking]
• instructive 0
  adj 1: serving to instruct or enlighten or inform [syn: instructive, informative] [ant: uninstructive]
• 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
• obstructive 0
  adj 1: preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street" [syn: clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive]
• oxidative 0
  adj 1: taking place in the presence of oxygen; "oxidative glycolysis"; "oxidative rancidity"
• 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]
• photoconductive 0
  adj 1: of or relating to photoconductivity; "selenium is a photoconductive substance"
• 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]
• productive 0
  adj 1: producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration" [ant: unproductive] 2: having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces" [syn: generative, productive] [ant: consumptive] 3: yielding positive results 4: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich]
• 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]
• reconstructive 0
  adj 1: helping to restore to good condition; "reconstructive surgery"; "rehabilitative exercises" [syn: reconstructive, rehabilitative]
• reductive 0
  adj 1: characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere
• reproductive 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]
• seductive 0
  adj 1: tending to entice into a desired action or state [ant: unseductive]
• sportive 0
  adj 1: relating to or interested in sports 2: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes" [syn: coltish, frolicsome, frolicky, rollicking, sportive]
• supportive 0
  adj 1: furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer" [ant: unsupportive]
• unproductive 0
  adj 1: not producing or capable of producing; "elimination of high-cost or unproductive industries" [ant: productive] 2: not producing desired results; "the talks between labor and management were unproductive"
• unsupportive 0
  adj 1: not furnishing support or assistance [ant: supportive]
• 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]
• approbative 0
  adj 1: expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod" [syn: approving, affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive]
• uncreative 0
  adj 1: not creative; "an uncreative imagination" [ant: creative, originative]
• conciliative 0
  adj 1: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative] [ant: antagonistic]
• annotative 0
• compensative 0
• completive 0
• concentrative 0
• consummative 0
• dissipative 0
• emanative 0
• execrative 0
• extortive 0
• irradiative 0
• substitutive 0
• prolative 0
• ventilative 0
• hesitative 0
• recreative 0
• exfoliative 0
• exudative 0
• suppletive 0

See also constructive definition and constructive synonyms