Words that rhyme with emanative

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

adj 1: growing by accretion

adj 1: indistinctly prophetic [syn: adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative]

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: of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself

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: feeling or expressing sympathy; "made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue"- Kenneth Roberts

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: containing warning of punishment [syn: comminatory, denunciative, denunciatory]

adj 1: that makes clear; "a clarifying example" [syn: clarifying, elucidative]

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

adj 1: tending to exploit or make use of [syn: exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive]

adj 1: of or relating to gustation [syn: gustatory, gustative, gustatorial]

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"

adj 1: clarifying by use of examples [syn: exemplifying, illustrative] 2: serving to demonstrate [syn: demonstrative, illustrative]

adj 1: tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an ancient society"; "an implicative statement" [syn: implicative, suggestive]

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]

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]

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

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: 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]

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: 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]

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: 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

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

adj 1: not creative; "an uncreative imagination" [ant: creative, originative]

adj 1: intended to placate; "spoke in a conciliating tone"; "a conciliatory visit" [syn: conciliatory, conciliative] [ant: antagonistic]