Words that rhyme with protective

• effective 3
  adj 1: producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long- distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn: effective, effectual, efficacious] [ant: ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective] 2: able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively; "people who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons..."-G.B.Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution" [syn: effective, efficient] 3: works well as a means or remedy; "an effective reprimand"; "a lotion that is effective in cases of prickly heat" 4: exerting force or influence; "the law is effective immediately"; "a warranty good for two years"; "the law is already in effect (or in force)" [syn: effective, good, in effect(p), in force(p)] 5: existing in fact; not theoretical; real; "a decline in the effective demand"; "confused increased equipment and expenditure with the quantity of effective work done" 6: ready for service; "the fort was held by about 100 effective soldiers"
• affective 0
  adj 1: characterized by emotion [syn: affectional, affective, emotive]
• collective 0
  adj 1: done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good" [syn: corporate, collective] 2: forming a whole or aggregate [ant: distributive] 3: set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms" n 1: members of a cooperative enterprise
• connective 0
  adj 1: connecting or tending to connect; "connective remarks between chapters"; "connective tissue in animals"; "conjunctive tissue in plants" n 1: an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative] 2: an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective]
• corrective 0
  adj 1: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn: corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal] 2: tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses" n 1: a device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective, restorative]
• defective 0
  adj 1: having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective" [syn: defective, faulty] 2: markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior; "defective speech" 3: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance" [syn: bad, defective]
• detective 0
  n 1: a police officer who investigates crimes [syn: detective, investigator, tec, police detective] 2: an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
• directive 0
  adj 1: showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the directional role of science on industrial progress" [syn: directing, directional, directive, guiding] n 1: a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity; "the boss loves to send us directives"
• elective 0
  adj 1: subject to popular election; "elective official" [syn: elective, elected] [ant: appointed, appointive] 2: not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of study" n 1: a course that the student can select from among alternatives [syn: elective course, elective]
• imperfective 0
  n 1: aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb [syn: imperfective, imperfective aspect]
• ineffective 0
  adj 1: not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective teacher"; "ineffective legislation" [syn: ineffective, uneffective, ineffectual] [ant: effective, effectual, efficacious] 2: lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes" [syn: ineffective, ineffectual, unable] 3: lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate; "an ineffective administration"; "inefficient workers" [syn: ineffective, inefficient]
• infective 0
  adj 1: able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria" [syn: infective, morbific, pathogenic] 2: caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease" [syn: infectious, infective]
• introspective 0
  adj 1: given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences [syn: introspective, introverted, self-examining] [ant: extrospective, extroverted]
• invective 0
  n 1: abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn: vituperation, invective, vitriol]
• irrespective 0
  adv 1: in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks; "he carried on regardless of the difficulties" [syn: regardless, irrespective, disregardless, no matter, disregarding]
• objective 0
  adj 1: undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence" [syn: objective, nonsubjective] [ant: subjective] 2: serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective case"; "accusative endings" [syn: objective, accusative] 3: emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art" [syn: objective, documentary] 4: belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events; "objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no objective evidence of anything of the kind" n 1: the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable); "the sole object of her trip was to see her children" [syn: aim, object, objective, target] 2: the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed [syn: objective, objective lens, object lens, object glass]
• perspective 0
  n 1: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: position, view, perspective] 2: the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer [syn: perspective, linear perspective]
• prospective 0
  adj 1: of or concerned with or related to the future; "prospective earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "a prospective bride"; "the statute is solely prospective in operation" [ant: retrospective]
• reflective 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: capable of physically reflecting light or sound; "a reflective surface" [ant: nonreflecting, nonreflective] 3: devoted to matters of the mind; "the reflective type"
• respective 0
  adj 1: considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a), various(a)]
• retrospective 0
  adj 1: concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective self-justification" [ant: prospective] n 1: an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
• selective 0
  adj 1: tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown 2: characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the school was very selective in its admissions"
• subjective 0
  adj 1: taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias; "a subjective judgment" [ant: nonsubjective, objective] 2: of a mental act performed entirely within the mind; "a cognition is an immanent act of mind" [syn: immanent, subjective] [ant: transeunt, transient]
• unselective 0
  adj 1: not selective or discriminating; "unselective in her reading habits; her choices seemed completely random"
• perfective 0
  n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) [syn: perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense] 2: the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action [syn: perfective, perfective aspect]
• convective 0
• ejective 0
• inflective 0
• intellective 0
• projective 0

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