Words that rhyme with delineative

• 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]
• accumulative 0
  adj 1: increasing by successive addition; "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances" [syn: accumulative, cumulative] 2: marked by acquiring or amassing; "we live in an accumulative society"
• active 0
  adj 1: tending to become more severe or wider in scope; "active tuberculosis" [ant: inactive] 2: engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces" [syn: active, combat-ready, fighting(a)] 3: disposed to take action or effectuate change; "a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations"; "an active antagonism"; "he was active in drawing attention to their grievances" [ant: inactive, passive] 4: taking part in an activity; "an active member of the club"; "he was politically active"; "the participating organizations" [syn: active, participating] 5: characterized by energetic activity; "an active toddler"; "active as a gazelle"; "an active man is a man of action" [ant: inactive] 6: exerting influence or producing a change or effect; "an active ingredient" [ant: inactive] 7: full of activity or engaged in continuous activity; "an active seaport"; "an active bond market"; "an active account" [ant: inactive] 8: in operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition" [syn: active, alive(p)] 9: (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions [ant: quiet] 10: expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor: "Hemingway favors active constructions" [ant: passive] 11: (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being [syn: active, dynamic] [ant: stative] 12: (of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting [ant: extinct] 13: (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt; "active volcanos" [ant: dormant, inactive] 14: engaged in full-time work; "active duty"; "though past retirement age he is still active in his profession" [ant: inactive] n 1: chemical agent capable of activity [syn: active agent, active] 2: the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb; "`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice" [syn: active voice, active] [ant: passive, passive voice] 3: a person who is a participating member of an organization; "the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees"
• adaptive 0
  adj 1: having a capacity for adaptation; "the adaptive coloring of a chameleon" [syn: adaptive, adaptative] [ant: maladaptive]
• alliterative 0
  adj 1: having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable; "alliterative verse"
• ameliorative 0
  adj 1: tending to ameliorate [syn: ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative]
• assimilative 0
  adj 1: capable of mentally absorbing ; "assimilative processes", "assimilative capacity of the human mind" 2: capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; "an assimilative substance [syn: assimilating, assimilative, assimilatory]
• calculative 0
  adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd]
• captive 0
  adj 1: being in captivity [syn: captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed] 2: giving or marked by complete attention to; "that engrossed look or rapt delight"; "then wrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: captive, absorbed, engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped] n 1: a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war [syn: prisoner, captive] 2: an animal that is confined 3: a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion
• comparative 0
  adj 1: relating to or based on or involving comparison; "comparative linguistics" 2: estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger" [syn: relative, comparative] [ant: absolute] n 1: the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; "`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'"; "`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'" [syn: comparative, comparative degree]
• conceptive 0
  adj 1: capable of conceiving [syn: conceptive, impregnable]
• consecutive 0
  adv 1: in a consecutive manner; "we numbered the papers consecutively" [syn: consecutive, sequentially] adj 1: one after the other; "back-to-back home runs" [syn: back-to-back, consecutive] 2: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive] 3: successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days" [syn: straight, consecutive]
• consumptive 0
  adj 1: tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" [ant: generative, productive] 2: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough" n 1: a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive, lunger, tubercular]
• contraceptive 0
  adj 1: capable of preventing conception or impregnation; "contraceptive devices and medications" [syn: contraceptive, prophylactic, antifertility] n 1: an agent or device intended to prevent conception [syn: contraceptive, preventive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device]
• cooperative 0
  adj 1: involving the joint activity of two or more; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong wind"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities" [syn: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative] 2: done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit; "a cooperative effort" [ant: uncooperative] 3: willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement [syn: accommodative, cooperative] n 1: a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners [syn: cooperative, co-op] 2: an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it
• copulative 0
  adj 1: syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence; "`and' is a copulative conjunction" n 1: an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence [syn: copula, copulative, linking verb]
• correlative 0
  adj 1: mutually related [syn: correlative, correlate, correlated] 2: expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions" n 1: either of two or more related or complementary variables [syn: correlate, correlative]
• corroborative 0
  adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]
• corruptive 0
  adj 1: tending to corrupt or pervert [syn: corruptive, perversive, pestiferous]
• cumulative 0
  adj 1: increasing by successive addition; "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances" [syn: accumulative, cumulative]
• dative 0
  n 1: the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb [syn: dative, dative case]
• deceptive 0
  adj 1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" [syn: deceptive, delusory] 2: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive, misleading, shoddy]
• declarative 0
  adj 1: relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration [syn: declarative, declaratory, asserting(a)] [ant: interrogative, interrogatory] 2: relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements; "indicative mood" [syn: indicative, declarative] 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]
• decorative 0
  adj 1: serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose; "cosmetic fenders on cars"; "the buildings were utilitarian rather than decorative" [syn: cosmetic, decorative, ornamental]
• degenerative 0
  adj 1: (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function; "degenerative diseases of old age"
• deliberative 0
  adj 1: involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination; "a deliberative body"
• demonstrative 0
  adj 1: given to or marked by the open expression of emotion; "an affectionate and demonstrative family" [ant: undemonstrative] 2: serving to demonstrate [syn: demonstrative, illustrative] n 1: a pronoun that points out an intended referent [syn: demonstrative pronoun, demonstrative]
• descriptive 0
  adj 1: serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage" [ant: undescriptive] 2: describing the structure of a language; "descriptive grammar" [ant: normative, prescriptive]
• diminutive 0
  adj 1: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck] n 1: a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness
• distributive 0
  adj 1: serving to distribute or allot or disperse [ant: collective]
• votive 0
  adj 1: dedicated in fulfillment of a vow; "votive prayers"
• corporative 0

See also delineative definition and delineative synonyms