Words that rhyme with contortive

adj 1: failing to accomplish an intended result; "an abortive revolt"; "a stillborn plot to assassinate the President" [syn: abortive, stillborn, unsuccessful]

adj 1: moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative]

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"

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]

adj 1: (of a binary operation) independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a"

adj 1: having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit [ant: denotative, denotive]

adj 1: constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) [syn: constituent(a), constitutional, constitutive(a), organic]

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"

adj 1: having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination" [syn: creative, originative] [ant: uncreative] 2: promoting construction or creation; "creative work"

n 1: the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb [syn: dative, dative case]

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]

adj 1: taking place in the presence of oxygen; "oxidative glycolysis"; "oxidative rancidity"

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

adj 1: furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer" [ant: unsupportive]

adj 1: not furnishing support or assistance [ant: supportive]

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]

adj 1: expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod" [syn: approving, affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive]