Words that rhyme with illuminative

adj 1: affirming or giving assent; "an affirmative decision"; "affirmative votes" [syn: affirmative, affirmatory] [ant: negative] 2: expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook" [syn: affirmative, optimistic] 3: expressing or manifesting praise or approval; "approbative criticism"; "an affirmative nod" [syn: approving, affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive] n 1: a reply of affirmation; "he answered in the affirmative" [ant: negative]

adj 1: forming derivative or compound words by putting together constituents each of which expresses a single definite meaning [syn: agglutinative, polysynthetic] 2: united as if by glue [syn: agglutinate, agglutinative]

adj 1: serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan" [syn: alternate, alternative, substitute] 2: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or war" 3: pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style" n 1: one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse" [syn: option, alternative, choice]

adj 1: relieving gas in the alimentary tract (colic or flatulence or griping) [syn: carminative, flatus- relieving] n 1: medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing

adj 1: of or being or relating to or involving cognition; "cognitive psychology"; "cognitive style"

adj 1: marked by or relating to or resulting from combination [syn: combinative, combinatory] [ant: noncombinative] 2: relating to or involving combinations [syn: combinative, combinatory, combinatorial]

adj 1: serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction; "`and' in `John and Mary' or in `John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is `or' in `will you go or stay?'" [syn: coordinating(a), coordinative] [ant: subordinating(a), subordinative]

adj 1: clearly defined or formulated; "the plain and unequivocal language of the laws"- R.B.Taney [syn: definitive, unequivocal] 2: of recognized authority or excellence; "the definitive work on Greece"; "classical methods of navigation" [syn: authoritative, classical, classic, definitive] 3: supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement; "a definitive verdict"; "a determinate answer to the problem" [syn: definitive, determinate]

adj 1: having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle" [syn: deciding(a), determinant, determinative, determining(a)] n 1: one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases [syn: determiner, determinative] 2: a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life" [syn: determinant, determiner, determinative, determining factor, causal factor]

adj 1: exploding almost instantaneously

adj 1: capable of making fine distinctions [syn: discriminative, discriminatory] 2: expressing careful judgment; "discriminative censure"; "a biography ...appreciative and yet judicial in purpose"-Tyler Dennett [syn: discriminative, judicial]

adj 1: capable of forming new cells and tissues; "a formative zone in developing bone" 2: forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning; "a formative influence"; "a formative experience" [syn: formative, shaping, plastic] n 1: minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function

adj 1: serving to express or indicate possession; "possessive pronouns"; "the genitive endings" [syn: possessive, genitive] n 1: the case expressing ownership [syn: genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case]

adj 1: (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics" [syn: imaginative, inventive]

n 1: the uninflected form of the verb

adj 1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture" [syn: enlightening, informative, illuminating] [ant: unenlightening, unilluminating] 2: serving to instruct or enlighten or inform [syn: instructive, informative] [ant: uninstructive] 3: providing or conveying information [syn: informative, informatory] [ant: uninformative]

adj 1: moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear [syn: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative] n 1: remedy that eases pain and discomfort

adj 1: serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; "nominative noun endings"; "predicate nominative" 2: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" [syn: nominative, nominal] 3: appointed by nomination [syn: nominated, nominative] n 1: the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb [syn: nominative, nominative case, subject case] [ant: oblique, oblique case]

adj 1: obstinate in your opinions [syn: opinionated, opinionative, self-opinionated]

adj 1: inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages" [syn: punitive, punitory] [ant: rehabilitative]

adj 1: tending to reform; "reformative and rehabilitative agencies"; "reformatory punishment" [syn: reformative, reformatory]

adj 1: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative]

adj 1: tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" [syn: curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic]

adj 1: deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing" [syn: sterile, unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive] 2: dealing only with concrete facts 3: lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative" [syn: stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative]

adj 1: lacking information [ant: informative, informatory]

adj 1: charging or suggestive of guilt or blame; "incriminatory testimony" [syn: criminative, criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory]

adj 1: having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination" [syn: creative, originative] [ant: uncreative] 2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal]