Words that rhyme with distractive

adj 1: of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting; "abstractive analysis"

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"

adj 1: pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book with attractive illustrations" [ant: unattractive] 2: having power to arouse interest; "an attractive opportunity"; "the job is attractive because of the pay" 3: having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull; "an attractive force"; [ant: repulsive(a)]

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

adj 1: opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action

adj 1: causing to decrease in importance or value; "detractive influences on the volume of investment"

adj 1: more active than normal; "a hyperactive child" [syn: hyperactive, overactive]

adj 1: (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert; "desired amounts of inactive chlorine" 2: (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly [ant: active] 3: (military) not involved in military operations [syn: nonoperational, inactive] [ant: operational] 4: not exerting influence or change [ant: active] 5: (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano" [syn: dormant, inactive] [ant: active] 6: lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith [syn: passive, inactive] [ant: active] 7: lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" [ant: active] 8: not engaged in full-time work; "inactive reserve"; "an inactive member" [ant: active] 9: not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature" [ant: active] 10: not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at rest" [syn: inactive, motionless, static, still]

adj 1: used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) [syn: synergistic, interactive] [ant: antagonistic, incompatible] 2: capable of acting on or influencing each other [syn: interactional, interactive]

adj 1: more active than normal; "a hyperactive child" [syn: hyperactive, overactive]

adj 1: descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently; "proactive inhibition"; "proactive interference" [ant: retroactive] 2: (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens

adj 1: affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes; "psychoactive drugs" [syn: psychoactive, psychotropic] [ant: nonpsychoactive]

adj 1: exhibiting or caused by radioactivity; "radioactive isotope"; "radioactive decay"; "radioactive fallout" [ant: nonradioactive]

adj 1: participating readily in reactions; "sodium is a reactive metal"; "free radicals are very reactive" [ant: unreactive] 2: reacting to a stimulus; "the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons" [syn: reactive, responsive]

adj 1: of or relating to or capable of refraction; "the refractive characteristics of the eye" [syn: refractive, refractile] 2: capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) [syn: deflective, refractive]

adj 1: descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously [ant: proactive] 2: affecting things past; "retroactive tax increase"; "an ex- post-facto law"; "retro pay" [syn: ex post facto, retroactive, retro]

adj 1: constituting or involving subtraction; "a subtractive correction" [ant: additive]

adj 1: lacking beauty or charm; "as unattractive as most mining regions" [ant: attractive] 2: lacking power to arouse interest; "being unemployed is a most unattractive prospect" 3: not appealing to the senses; "untempting food" [syn: unattractive, untempting]

adj 1: exerting traction and serving to pull