Words that rhyme with obliterative

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]

adj 1: having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.); "as absorbent as a sponge" [syn: absorbent, absorptive] [ant: nonabsorbent, nonabsorptive]

adj 1: tending to increase velocity [syn: accelerative, acceleratory]

adj 1: of or relating to acculturation [syn: acculturational, acculturative]

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"

adj 1: having a capacity for adaptation; "the adaptive coloring of a chameleon" [syn: adaptive, adaptative] [ant: maladaptive]

adj 1: of or relating to or responsible for administration

adj 1: of parents and children; related by adoption; "adoptive parents" [ant: biological] 2: acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country" [syn: adopted, adoptive] [ant: native]

adj 1: having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface [syn: adsorbent, adsorptive, surface-assimilative] [ant: nonadsorbent, nonadsorptive]

adj 1: clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower head" [syn: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered]

adj 1: having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable; "alliterative verse"

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: tending to ameliorate [syn: ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative]

adj 1: pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun 2: inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites" [syn: appellative, naming(a)] n 1: identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: appellation, denomination, designation, appellative]

adj 1: aggressively self-assured; "an energetic assertive boy who was always ready to argue"; "pointing directly at a listener is an assertive act" [syn: assertive, self- asserting, self-assertive] [ant: unassertive]

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]

adj 1: excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants" [syn: assumptive, assuming, presumptuous] 2: accepted as real or true without proof; "the assumed reason for his absence"; "assumptive beliefs"

adj 1: of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify; "`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'" [syn: attributive, prenominal] [ant: predicative]

adj 1: of or relating to motor vehicles; "automotive supplies" 2: containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement; "a self-propelled vehicle" [syn: automotive, self- propelled, self-propelling]

adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd]

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: accomplished by collaboration; "collaborative research"

adj 1: intended as a commemoration; "a commemorative plaque" [syn: commemorative, commemorating] n 1: an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person

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]

adj 1: capable of conceiving [syn: conceptive, impregnable]

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]

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]

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] n 1: a person devoted to the contemplative life

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]

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

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]

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]

adj 1: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying]

adj 1: tending to corrupt or pervert [syn: corruptive, perversive, pestiferous]

adj 1: increasing by successive addition; "the benefits are cumulative"; "the eventual accumulative effect of these substances" [syn: accumulative, cumulative]

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] n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]

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]

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]

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]

adj 1: (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function; "degenerative diseases of old age"

adj 1: involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination; "a deliberative body"

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]

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]

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

adj 1: tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts [ant: integrative]

adj 1: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent]

adj 1: serving to distribute or allot or disperse [ant: collective]

n 1: the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration [syn: durative, durative aspect]

adj 1: concerned with or producing electric current

adj 1: characterized by emotion [syn: affectional, affective, emotive]

adj 1: producing or characterized by eruptions; "an eruptive disease" 2: produced by the action of fire or intense heat; "rocks formed by igneous agents" [syn: igneous, eruptive] [ant: aqueous, sedimentary] 3: actively spewing out lava; "a geyser is an intermittently eruptive hot spring"

adj 1: relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation; "an evaporative cooler"

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]

adj 1: providing absolution [syn: absolvitory, exonerative, forgiving]

adj 1: serving in or intended for exploration or discovery; "an exploratory operation"; "exploratory reconnaissance"; "digging an exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico"; "exploratory talks between diplomats" [syn: exploratory, explorative] [ant: nonexplorative, nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory]

adj 1: (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language" [syn: figurative, nonliteral] [ant: literal] 2: consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read [syn: figural, figurative]

adj 1: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" [syn: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious] 2: secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior" [syn: backstair, backstairs, furtive]

adj 1: having the ability to produce or originate; "generative power"; "generative forces" [syn: generative, productive] [ant: consumptive] 2: 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: requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative" [ant: beseeching, imploring, pleading] 2: relating to verbs in the imperative mood n 1: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior [syn: imperative mood, imperative, jussive mood, imperative form] 2: some duty that is essential and urgent

adj 1: not working or taking effect; "an inoperative law" [ant: operative]

adj 1: of or relating to an inscription

adj 1: combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole [ant: disintegrative] 2: tending to consolidate [syn: consolidative, integrative]

adj 1: that provides interpretation [syn: interpretative, interpretive]

adj 1: of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro [syn: irruptive, plutonic]

adj 1: relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature; "legislative council" 2: of or relating to or created by legislation; "legislative proposal"

adj 1: of or relating to locomotion [syn: locomotive, locomotor] n 1: a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks [syn: locomotive, engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive]

adj 1: producing a sizeable profit; "a remunerative business" [syn: lucrative, moneymaking, remunerative]

adj 1: showing faulty adaptation [ant: adaptative, adaptive]

adj 1: skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage; "the early manipulative techniques of a three- year-old child"

adj 1: causing or able to cause motion; "a motive force"; "motive power"; "motor energy" [syn: motive(a), motor] 2: impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments" [syn: motivative(a), motive(a), motivating] n 1: the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives" [syn: motivation, motive, need] 2: a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music [syn: motif, motive] 3: a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration [syn: motif, motive]

adj 1: consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story; "narrative poetry" n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale]

adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]

adj 1: being in force or having or exerting force; "operative regulations"; "the major tendencies operative in the American political system" [ant: inoperative] 2: relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine; "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"; "operative dentistry" [syn: surgical, operative] [ant: medical] 3: effective; producing a desired effect; "the operative word" 4: (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" [syn: running(a), operative, functional, working(a)] n 1: a person secretly employed in espionage for a government [syn: secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operative] 2: someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information [syn: private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlock]

adj 1: expressing disapproval; "dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'" [syn: dyslogistic, dislogistic, pejorative]

adj 1: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp] 2: tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing; "a toxic penetrative spray applied to the surface"; "a cold penetrating wind"; "a penetrating odor" [syn: penetrative, penetrating]

adj 1: of or relating to perception; "perceptive faculties" 2: having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; "a perceptive eye"; "a perceptive observation" [ant: unperceiving, unperceptive]

adj 1: happening or done after a surgical operation; "postoperative complications"; "postoperative care"

adj 1: happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation

adj 1: preceding and preparing for something; "preparatory steps" [syn: preparatory, preparative, propaedeutic]

adj 1: pertaining to giving directives or rules; "prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage" [syn: prescriptive, normative] [ant: descriptive]

adj 1: having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance; "the presumptive heir (or heir apparent)" 2: affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance; "presumptive evidence"; "a strong presumptive case is made out"

adj 1: open to arguments, ideas, or change; "receptive to reason and the logic of facts" 2: ready or willing to receive favorably; "receptive to the proposals" [syn: receptive, open] [ant: unreceptive] 3: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn: centripetal, receptive, sensory(a)] 4: able to absorb liquid (not repellent); "the paper is ink- receptive"

adj 1: promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers"; "strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise" [syn: recuperative, restorative]

adj 1: of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown [syn: redemptive, redemptional, redemptory] 2: bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" [syn: redemptive, redeeming(a), saving(a)]

adj 1: restricting according to rules or principles; "a regulatory gene" [syn: regulative, regulatory]

adj 1: marked by iteration [syn: iterative, reiterative]

adj 1: estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger" [syn: relative, comparative] [ant: absolute] 2: properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production" [syn: proportional, relative] n 1: a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" [syn: relative, relation] 2: an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) [syn: relative, congener, congenator, congeneric]

adj 1: for which money is paid; "a paying job"; "remunerative work"; "salaried employment"; "stipendiary services" [syn: compensable, paying(a), remunerative, salaried, stipendiary] 2: producing a sizeable profit; "a remunerative business" [syn: lucrative, moneymaking, remunerative]

adj 1: tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing warmth of the sunshine" [syn: renewing, restorative, reviving, revitalizing, revitalising] 2: promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers"; "strongly recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise" [syn: recuperative, restorative] n 1: a medicine that strengthens and invigorates [syn: tonic, restorative] 2: a device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective, restorative]

adj 1: of or relating to or having the nature of retribution; "retributive justice demands an eye for an eye" [syn: retaliatory, relatiative, retributive, retributory, vindicatory] 2: given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts; "retributive justice" [syn: retributive, retributory, vindicatory]

adj 1: inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it" [syn: close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped]

adj 1: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises" [syn: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative] 2: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge" [syn: notional, speculative] 3: showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow" [syn: inquisitive, speculative, questioning, wondering(a)]

adj 1: highest in quality [syn: greatest, sterling(a), superlative] n 1: an exaggerated expression (usually of praise); "the critics lavished superlatives on it" 2: the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top] 3: the superlative form of an adjective or adverb; "`fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast'"; "`least famous' is the superlative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`most surely' is the superlative of the adverb `surely'" [syn: superlative, superlative degree]

adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by ulceration; "ulcerative colitis"

adj 1: inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence; "a shy unassertive person" [ant: assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive]

adj 1: unwilling to cooperate; "an uncooperative witness" [ant: cooperative] 2: intentionally unaccommodating; "the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging" [syn: disobliging, uncooperative]

adj 1: not given to open expression of emotion [ant: demonstrative]

adj 1: not receptive [ant: open, receptive]

adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing" [syn: scathing, vituperative]

adj 1: dedicated in fulfillment of a vow; "votive prayers"