Words that rhyme with negative

• additive 0
  adj 1: designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree [syn: linear, additive] [ant: nonlinear] 2: characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process" [ant: subtractive] n 1: something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine
• adjudicative 0
  adj 1: concerned with adjudicating [syn: adjudicative, adjudicatory]
• affricative 0
  n 1: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') [syn: affricate, affricate consonant, affricative]
• aggregative 0
  adj 1: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass]
• alive 0
  adj 1: possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary" [syn: alive(p), live] [ant: dead] 2: (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit; "she was wonderfully alive for her age"; "a face alive with mischief" 3: having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news" [syn: animated, alive] [ant: unanimated] 4: (followed by `to' or `of') aware of; "is alive to the moods of others" 5: in operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition" [syn: active, alive(p)] 6: mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" [syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)] 7: capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive" [syn: alive, live]
• anticipative 0
  adj 1: marked by eager anticipation; "an expectant hush" [syn: anticipant, anticipative, expectant]
• appetitive 0
  adj 1: of or relating to appetite; "appetitive needs"
• argumentative 0
  adj 1: given to or characterized by argument; "an argumentative discourse"; "argumentative to the point of being cantankerous"; "an intelligent but argumentative child" [ant: unargumentative]
• arrive 0
  v 1: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go away, go forth, leave] 2: succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!" [syn: arrive, make it, get in, go far]
• augmentative 0
  adj 1: increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; "`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'" 2: intensifying by augmentation and enhancement [syn: augmentative, enhancive]
• authoritative 0
  adj 1: having authority or ascendancy or influence; "an important official"; "the captain's authoritative manner" [syn: authoritative, important] 2: of recognized authority or excellence; "the definitive work on Greece"; "classical methods of navigation" [syn: authoritative, classical, classic, definitive] 3: sanctioned by established authority; "an authoritative communique"; "the authorized biography" [syn: authoritative, authorized, authorised]
• chive 0
  n 1: perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning [syn: chives, chive, cive, schnittlaugh, Allium schoenoprasum]
• cogitative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to having capacities for cogitation; "the cogitative faculty" 2: given to cogitation; "he looked at me with cogitative eyes"
• combative 0
  adj 1: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit" [syn: contentious, combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious] 2: striving to overcome in argument; "a dialectical and agonistic approach" [syn: agonistic, agonistical, combative] 3: having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature" [syn: battleful, bellicose, combative]
• communicative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to communication; "communicative arts" 2: able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: communicative, communicatory] [ant: incommunicative, uncommunicative]
• competitive 0
  adj 1: involving competition or competitiveness; "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position" [syn: competitive, competitory] [ant: noncompetitive] 2: subscribing to capitalistic competition [syn: competitive, free-enterprise(a), private-enterprise(a)] 3: showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy" [syn: competitive, militant]
• connive 0
  v 1: encourage or assent to illegally or criminally 2: form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner [syn: scheme, intrigue, connive]
• consultative 0
  adj 1: giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function was purely consultative" [syn: advisory, consultative, consultatory, consultive]
• contrive 0
  v 1: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design] 2: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge] 3: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, cast, contrive, throw]
• deprive 0
  v 1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, strip, divest] 2: keep from having, keeping, or obtaining 3: take away [syn: deprive, impoverish] [ant: enrich]
• derive 0
  v 1: reason by deduction; establish by deduction [syn: deduce, infer, deduct, derive] 2: obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden" [syn: derive, gain] 3: come from; "The present name derives from an older form" 4: develop or evolve from a latent or potential state [syn: derive, educe] 5: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive, come, descend]
• derogative 0
  adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
• dive 0
  n 1: a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall [syn: honkytonk, dive] 2: a headlong plunge into water [syn: dive, diving] 3: a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft [syn: dive, nose dive, nosedive] v 1: drop steeply; "the stock market plunged" [syn: dive, plunge, plunk] 2: plunge into water; "I was afraid to dive from the board into the pool" 3: swim under water; "the children enjoyed diving and looking for shells"
• drive 0
  n 1: the act of applying force to propel something; "after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [syn: drive, thrust, driving force] 2: a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation through a range of speeds" 3: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" [syn: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort] 4: a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the driveway" [syn: driveway, drive, private road] 5: the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy exhausted his co-workers" 6: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced his drive out of bounds" [syn: drive, driving] 7: the act of driving a herd of animals overland 8: a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the family for a drive in his new car" [syn: drive, ride] 9: a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire 10: (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium 11: a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive offers many exciting scenic views" [syn: drive, parkway] 12: (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) v 1: operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can you drive this four-wheel truck?" 2: travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater" [syn: drive, motor] 3: cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage" 4: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram] 5: to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly; "She is driven by her passion" 6: cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" [syn: repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back] [ant: attract, draw, draw in, pull, pull in] 7: compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs" 8: push, propel, or press with force; "Drive a nail into the wall" 9: cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force; "drive the ball far out into the field" 10: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" [syn: tug, labor, labour, push, drive] 11: move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?" [syn: drive, get, aim] 12: have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: drive, ride] 13: work as a driver; "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for the taxi company in Newark" 14: move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around the corner" 15: urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn" 16: proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work" [syn: drive, take] 17: strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golf ball" 18: hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally; "drive a ball" 19: excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel" 20: cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the computer" 21: hunting: search for game; "drive the forest" 22: hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the game"
• educative 0
  adj 1: resulting in education; "an educative experience"
• evaluative 0
  adj 1: exercising or involving careful evaluations; "looked him over with an appraising eye"; "the literary judge uses many evaluative terms" [syn: appraising(a), evaluative]
• evocative 0
  adj 1: serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant]
• excogitative 0
  adj 1: concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation
• executive 0
  adj 1: having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.; "the executive branch" n 1: a person responsible for the administration of a business [syn: executive, executive director] 2: persons who administer the law 3: someone who manages a government agency or department [syn: administrator, executive]
• exhortative 0
  adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
• exploitative 0
  adj 1: tending to exploit or make use of [syn: exploitative, exploitatory, exploitive]
• facilitative 0
  adj 1: freeing from difficulty or impediment; "facilitative changes in the economic structure"
• facultative 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the mental faculties 2: able to exist under more than one set of conditions; "a facultative parasite can exist as a parasite or a saprophyte" [ant: obligate] 3: granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something; "a facultative enactment" 4: not compulsory; "facultative courses in the sciences"
• five 0
  adj 1: being one more than four [syn: five, 5, v] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe] 2: a team that plays basketball [syn: basketball team, five] 3: a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips [syn: five-spot, five]
• forgive 0
  v 1: stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday" 2: absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt"
• frequentative 0
  n 1: a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action
• fricative 0
  adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident] n 1: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract [syn: fricative consonant, fricative, spirant]
• give 0
  n 1: the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length [syn: give, spring, springiness] v 1: cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold" 2: be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information" [syn: yield, give, afford] 3: transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" [ant: take] 4: convey or reveal information; "Give one's name" 5: convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow; "Don't pay him any mind"; "give the orders"; "Give him my best regards"; "pay attention" [syn: give, pay] 6: organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course" [syn: hold, throw, have, make, give] 7: convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture; "Throw a glance"; "She gave me a dirty look" [syn: give, throw] 8: give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?" [syn: give, gift, present] 9: cause to happen or be responsible for; "His two singles gave the team the victory" [syn: give, yield] 10: dedicate; "give thought to"; "give priority to"; "pay attention to" [syn: give, pay, devote] 11: give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" [syn: render, yield, return, give, generate] 12: transmit (knowledge or skills); "give a secret to the Russians"; "leave your name and address here"; "impart a new skill to the students" [syn: impart, leave, give, pass on] 13: bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" [syn: establish, give] 14: leave with; give temporarily; "Can I give you my keys while I go in the pool?"; "Can I give you the children for the weekend?" 15: emit or utter; "Give a gulp"; "give a yelp" 16: endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war" [syn: sacrifice, give] 17: place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give] 18: give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn: give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote] 19: give (as medicine); "I gave him the drug" 20: give or convey physically; "She gave him First Aid"; "I gave him a punch in the nose" [syn: give, apply] 21: bestow; "give homage"; "render thanks" [syn: give, render] 22: bestow, especially officially; "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights" [syn: grant, give] 23: move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" [syn: move over, give way, give, ease up, yield] 24: give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" [syn: feed, give] [ant: famish, starve] 25: contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office" [syn: contribute, give, chip in, kick in] 26: break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" [syn: collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder] 27: estimate the duration or outcome of something; "He gave the patient three months to live"; "I gave him a very good chance at success" 28: execute and deliver; "Give bond" 29: deliver in exchange or recompense; "I'll give you three books for four CDs" 30: afford access to; "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace" [syn: afford, open, give] 31: present to view; "He gave the sign to start" 32: perform for an audience; "Pollini is giving another concert in New York" 33: be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material doesn't give" [syn: give, yield] 34: propose; "He gave the first of many toasts at the birthday party" 35: accord by verdict; "give a decision for the plaintiff" 36: manifest or show; "This student gives promise of real creativity"; "The office gave evidence of tampering" 37: offer in good faith; "He gave her his word" 38: submit for consideration, judgment, or use; "give one's opinion"; "give an excuse" 39: guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion; "You gave me to think that you agreed with me" 40: allow to have or take; "I give you two minutes to respond" 41: inflict as a punishment; "She gave the boy a good spanking"; "The judge gave me 10 years" 42: occur; "what gives?" 43: consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man; "She gave herself to many men" 44: proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister"
• hive 0
  n 1: a teeming multitude 2: a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees [syn: beehive, hive] 3: a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree [syn: beehive, hive] v 1: store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information" 2: move together in a hive or as if in a hive; "The bee swarms are hiving" 3: gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm"
• hortative 0
  adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
• imitative 0
  adj 1: marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being" [ant: nonimitative] 2: (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer [syn: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic] [ant: nonechoic] 3: not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince" [syn: counterfeit, imitative] [ant: echt, genuine]
• incommunicative 0
  adj 1: not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions [syn: uncommunicative, incommunicative] [ant: communicative, communicatory]
• indicative 0
  adj 1: relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements; "indicative mood" [syn: indicative, declarative] 2: (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear" [syn: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive] 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]
• instigative 0
  adj 1: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble- rousing, seditious]
• interpretative 0
  adj 1: that provides interpretation [syn: interpretative, interpretive]
• intuitive 0
  adj 1: spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency; "an intuitive revulsion" 2: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation [syn: intuitive, nonrational, visceral]
• jive 0
  n 1: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz [syn: swing, swing music, jive] v 1: dance to jive music; dance the jive
• live 0
  adv 1: not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live" adj 1: actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience" [syn: live, unrecorded] [ant: recorded] 2: exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play" [ant: dead] 3: possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary" [syn: alive(p), live] [ant: dead] 4: highly reverberant; "a live concert hall" 5: charged with an explosive; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb" 6: elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" [syn: bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy] 7: abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch" 8: in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread" 9: of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option" 10: charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire" [syn: hot, live] 11: capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive" [syn: alive, live] v 1: inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods" [syn: populate, dwell, live, inhabit] 2: lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war" 3: continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" [syn: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out] 4: support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn: exist, survive, live, subsist] 5: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live] 6: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" [syn: know, experience, live] 7: pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
• locative 0
  n 1: the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb [syn: locative role, locative]
• meditative 0
  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]
• multiplicative 0
  adj 1: tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree; "the multiplicative tendency of proportional representation"
• outlive 0
  v 1: live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years" [syn: outlive, outlast, survive]
• positive 0
  adj 1: characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.; "a positive attitude"; "the reviews were all positive"; "a positive benefit"; "a positive demand" [ant: negative, neutral] 2: persuaded of; very sure; "were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join"; "I am positive he is lying"; "was confident he would win" [syn: convinced(p), positive(p), confident(p)] 3: involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor" [syn: plus, positive] 4: indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen; "a positive pregnancy test" [syn: positive, confirming] [ant: disconfirming, negative] 5: formally laid down or imposed; "positive laws" [syn: positive, prescribed] 6: impossible to deny or disprove; "incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence"; "proof positive"; "an irrefutable argument" [syn: incontrovertible, irrefutable, positive] 7: of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers"; "positivist doctrine"; "positive philosophy" [syn: positivist, positivistic, positive] 8: reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion; "positive increase in graduating students" [ant: negative] 9: greater than zero; "positive numbers" 10: having a positive charge; "protons are positive" [syn: positive, electropositive, positively charged] 11: marked by excessive confidence; "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"; "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"; "the less he knows the more positive he gets" [syn: cocksure, overconfident, positive] n 1: the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution [syn: positive, positive degree] 2: a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
• predicative 0
  adj 1: of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence; "`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'" [ant: attributive, prenominal]
• prerogative 0
  n 1: a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right]
• preventative 0
  adj 1: tending to prevent or hinder [syn: preventive, preventative] [ant: permissive] 2: preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug" [syn: preventive, preventative, prophylactic] n 1: remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; "the doctor recommended several preventatives" [syn: preventive, preventative, prophylactic] 2: any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference] 3: an agent or device intended to prevent conception [syn: contraceptive, preventive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device]
• probative 0
  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]
• prohibitive 0
  adj 1: tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive" [syn: prohibitive, prohibitory]
• provocative 0
  adj 1: serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy; "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope [ant: unprovocative, unprovoking] 2: exciting sexual desire; "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"
• purgative 0
  adj 1: strongly laxative [syn: cathartic, evacuant, purgative] n 1: a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels [syn: purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient]
• putative 0
  adj 1: purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the putative author of the book"
• rehabilitative 0
  adj 1: designed to accomplish rehabilitation; "from a penal to a rehabilitative philosophy"- J.B.Costello; "rehabilitative treatment" [ant: punitive, punitory] 2: helping to restore to good condition; "reconstructive surgery"; "rehabilitative exercises" [syn: reconstructive, rehabilitative]
• relive 0
  v 1: experience again, often in the imagination; "He relived the horrors of war" [syn: relive, live over]
• repetitive 0
  adj 1: repetitive and persistent; "the bluejay's insistent cry" [syn: insistent, repetitive] 2: characterized by repetition; "repetitive movement" [syn: repetitive, repetitious] [ant: nonrepetitive]
• representative 0
  adj 1: serving to represent or typify; "representative moviegoers"; "a representative modern play" 2: standing for something else; "the bald eagle is representative of the United States" [ant: nonrepresentative, unsymbolic] 3: being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives; "representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people" n 1: a person who represents others 2: an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government" [syn: spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice] 3: a member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative] 4: an item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" [syn: example, illustration, instance, representative]
• revive 0
  v 1: cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the comatose man" [syn: resuscitate, revive] 2: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify] 3: be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength; "Interest in ESP revived" 4: restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in this remote part of Argentina" [syn: revive, resurrect] 5: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come to, revive, resuscitate]
• sedative 0
  adj 1: tending to soothe or tranquilize; "valium has a tranquilizing effect"; "took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed" [syn: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilizing, tranquillizing, tranquilising, tranquillising] n 1: a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person [syn: sedative, sedative drug, depressant, downer]
• shrive 0
  v 1: grant remission of a sin to; "The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Mary's" [syn: shrive, absolve]
• sieve 0
  n 1: a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles [syn: sieve, screen] v 1: examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants" [syn: screen, screen out, sieve, sort] 2: check and sort carefully; "sift the information" [syn: sieve, sift] 3: separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour" [syn: sift, sieve, strain] 4: distinguish and separate out; "sift through the job candidates" [syn: sieve, sift]
• skive 0
  v 1: remove the surface of; "skive leather"
• strive 0
  v 1: attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy" [syn: endeavor, endeavour, strive] 2: to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear" [syn: strive, reach, strain]
• survive 0
  v 1: continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" [syn: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out] 2: continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it] [ant: succumb, yield] 3: support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn: exist, survive, live, subsist] 4: live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years" [syn: outlive, outlast, survive]
• talkative 0
  adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky] 2: unwisely talking too much [syn: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative] 3: friendly and open and willing to talk; "wine made the guest expansive" [syn: expansive, talkative]
• tentative 0
  adj 1: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon; "probationary employees"; "a provisional government"; "just a tentative schedule" [syn: probationary, provisional, provisionary, tentative] 2: unsettled in mind or opinion; "drew a few tentative conclusions" [syn: doubtful, tentative]
• thrive 0
  v 1: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming" [syn: boom, thrive, flourish, expand] 2: make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance; "The new student is thriving" [syn: thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish]
• uncommunicative 0
  adj 1: not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions [syn: uncommunicative, incommunicative] [ant: communicative, communicatory]
• uncompetitive 0
  adj 1: not inclined to compete
• unrepresentative 0
  adj 1: not exemplifying a class; "I soon tumbled to the fact that my weekends were atypical"; "behavior quite unrepresentative (or atypical) of the profession"
• vegetative 0
  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]
• vocative 0
  adj 1: relating to a case used in some languages; "vocative verb endings" n 1: the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed [syn: vocative, vocative case]
• misgive 0
  v 1: suggest fear or doubt; "Her heart misgave her that she had acted inexcusably"
• clive 0
  n 1: British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774) [syn: Clive, Robert Clive, Baron Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey]
• deprecative 0
  adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting] 2: given to expressing disapproval
• irritative 0
  adj 1: (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite; "an irritative agent" [syn: irritating, irritative]
• siccative 0
  n 1: a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) [syn: desiccant, drying agent, drier, siccative]
• precative 0
  adj 1: expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures" [syn: precatory, precative]
• dedicative 0
• delimitative 0
• desiccative 0
• ergative 0
• excommunicative 0
• factitive 0
• fermentative 0
• imputative 0
• inhibitive 0
• judicative 0
• limitative 0
• misrepresentative 0
• nuncupative 0
• participative 0

See also negative definition and negative synonyms