Words that rhyme with persuasive

• abrasive 0
  adj 1: causing abrasion [syn: abrasive, scratchy] 2: sharply disagreeable; rigorous; "the harsh facts of court delays"; "an abrasive character" [syn: harsh, abrasive] n 1: a substance that abrades or wears down [syn: abrasive, abradant, abrasive material]
• cursive 0
  adj 1: having successive letter joined together; "cursive script" n 1: rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper [syn: longhand, running hand, cursive, cursive script]
• dissuasive 0
  adj 1: deterring from action; "dissuasive advice"; "made a slight dissuasive gesture with her hand" [ant: persuasive]
• evasive 0
  adj 1: deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement" 2: avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action"
• impassive 0
  adj 1: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference" [syn: impassive, stolid] 2: deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read" [syn: deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive]
• invasive 0
  adj 1: relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision [ant: noninvasive] 2: marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue; "invasive cancer cells" [ant: confined] 3: involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war" [syn: incursive, invading, invasive] 4: gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters" [syn: encroaching(a), invasive, trespassing(a)]
• massive 0
  adj 1: imposing in size or bulk or solidity; "massive oak doors"; "Moore's massive sculptures"; "the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture"; "a monumental scale" [syn: massive, monolithic, monumental] 2: being the same substance throughout; "massive silver" 3: imposing in scale or scope or degree or power; "massive retaliatory power"; "a massive increase in oil prices"; "massive changes" 4: consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter; "Earth is the most massive of the terrestrial planets"
• missive 0
  n 1: a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor" [syn: letter, missive]
• obsessive 0
  adj 1: characterized by or constituting an obsession; "the obsessional character of his response"; "obsessive gambling" [syn: obsessional, obsessive] n 1: a person who has obsessions
• obtrusive 0
  adj 1: undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti" [syn: obtrusive, noticeable] [ant: unnoticeable, unobtrusive] 2: sticking out; protruding
• occlusive 0
  adj 1: tending to occlude n 1: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive] [ant: continuant, continuant consonant]
• offensive 0
  adj 1: violating or tending to violate or offend against; "violative of the principles of liberty"; "considered such depravity offensive against all laws of humanity" [syn: offensive, violative] 2: for the purpose of attack rather than defense; "offensive weapons" [ant: defensive] 3: causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks" [ant: inoffensive, unoffending] 4: morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal" [syn: unsavory, unsavoury, offensive] [ant: savory, savoury] 5: unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors" [ant: inoffensive] 6: substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one ; "`nigger' is a dysphemistic term for `African-American'" [syn: dysphemistic, offensive] [ant: euphemistic, inoffensive] 7: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile] n 1: the action of attacking an enemy [syn: offense, offence, offensive]
• oppressive 0
  adj 1: weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows" 2: marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights" [syn: oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous]
• passive 0
  adj 1: 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] 2: peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance" [syn: passive, peaceful] 3: expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences" [ant: active] n 1: the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive" [syn: passive voice, passive] [ant: active, active voice]
• pensive 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] 2: showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty" [syn: pensive, wistful]
• permissive 0
  adj 1: not preventive [ant: preventative, preventive] 2: granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents" [ant: unpermissive]
• pervasive 0
  adj 1: spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion" [syn: permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive]
• plosive 0
  n 1: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive] [ant: continuant, continuant consonant]
• possessive 0
  adj 1: serving to express or indicate possession; "possessive pronouns"; "the genitive endings" [syn: possessive, genitive] 2: desirous of owning; "small children are so possessive they will not let others play with their toys" 3: having or showing a desire to control or dominate; "a possessive parent" n 1: the case expressing ownership [syn: genitive, genitive case, possessive, possessive case]
• preclusive 0
  adj 1: made impossible [syn: preclusive, obviating(a)]
• progressive 0
  adj 1: favoring or promoting progress; "progressive schools" [ant: regressive] 2: favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) [syn: progressive, reformist, reform-minded] 3: (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases [ant: regressive] 4: gradually advancing in extent 5: (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position; "progressive euchre"; "progressive tournaments" 6: advancing in severity; "progressive paralysis" n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going [syn: progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense] 2: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: liberal, liberalist, progressive] [ant: conservative, conservativist]
• propulsive 0
  adj 1: having the power to propel; "propulsive coefficient" 2: tending to or capable of propelling; "propellant fuel for submarines"; "the faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency"; "universities...the seats of propulsive thought" [syn: propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive]
• protrusive 0
  adj 1: thrusting outward [ant: intrusive]
• purposive 0
  adj 1: having or showing or acting with a purpose or design; "purposive behavior" 2: having a purpose; "purposive behavior" [syn: goal-directed, purposive]
• recessive 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to a recession [syn: recessionary, recessive] 2: (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical [ant: dominant] n 1: an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical [syn: recessive allele, recessive]
• unpersuasive 0
  adj 1: not capable of persuading
• degressive 0
  adj 1: going down by steps 2: (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount
• irresponsive 0
• jussive 0
• suasive 0

See also persuasive definition and persuasive synonyms