Words that rhyme with restive

• adjunctive 0
  adj 1: joining; forming an adjunct
• appointive 0
  adj 1: relating to the act of appointing; "appointive powers" 2: subject to appointment [syn: appointive, appointed] [ant: elected, elective]
• attentive 0
  adj 1: (often followed by `to') giving care or attention; "attentive to details"; "the nurse was attentive to her patient"; "an attentive suitor" [ant: inattentive] 2: taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing" [syn: heedful, attentive, thoughtful, paying attention] [ant: heedless, unheeding]
• combustive 0
  adj 1: supporting combustion [syn: comburent, comburant, combustive]
• congestive 0
  adj 1: relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid; "congestive heart disease"
• conjunctive 0
  adj 1: serving or tending to connect [ant: disjunctive] 2: 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] n 1: an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative]
• contrastive 0
  adj 1: of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn: contrastive, incompatible] 2: strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors" [syn: contrasting, contrastive] 3: syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
• costive 0
  adj 1: retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating [ant: laxative]
• digestive 0
  adj 1: relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme"; "digestive ferment" n 1: any substance that promotes digestion
• disincentive 0
  n 1: a negative motivational influence [syn: disincentive, deterrence] [ant: incentive, inducement, motivator]
• disjunctive 0
  adj 1: serving or tending to divide or separate [ant: conjunctive]
• exhaustive 0
  adj 1: performed comprehensively and completely; "an exhaustive study"; "made a thorough search"; "thoroughgoing research" [syn: exhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoing]
• festive 0
  adj 1: offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: gay, festal, festive, merry]
• inattentive 0
  adj 1: showing a lack of attention or care; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter" [ant: attentive] 2: not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents" [syn: inattentive, neglectful]
• incentive 0
  n 1: a positive motivational influence [syn: incentive, inducement, motivator] [ant: deterrence, disincentive] 2: an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output [syn: bonus, incentive]
• instinctive 0
  adj 1: unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" [syn: natural, instinctive]
• inventive 0
  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]
• plaintive 0
  adj 1: expressing sorrow [syn: mournful, plaintive]
• preventive 0
  adj 1: preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug" [syn: preventive, preventative, prophylactic] 2: tending to prevent or hinder [syn: preventive, preventative] [ant: permissive] 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]
• resistive 0
  adj 1: exhibiting or relating to electrical resistance; "resistive load" 2: disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority [syn: insubordinate, resistant, resistive]
• retentive 0
  adj 1: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive] 2: having the capacity to retain something 3: having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water; "soils retentive of moisture"
• subjunctive 0
  adj 1: relating to a mood of verbs; "subjunctive verb endings" n 1: a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible [syn: subjunctive mood, subjunctive]
• substantive 0
  adj 1: having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable; "substantial equivalents" [syn: substantial, substantive] 2: defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; "substantive law" [syn: substantive, essential] [ant: adjective, procedural] 3: being on topic and prompting thought; "a meaty discussion" [syn: meaty, substantive] n 1: any word or group of words functioning as a noun
• suggestive 0
  adj 1: tending to suggest or imply; "artifacts suggestive of an ancient society"; "an implicative statement" [syn: implicative, suggestive] 2: (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly; "actions indicative of fear" [syn: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive] 3: tending to suggest something improper or indecent; "a suggestive nod"; "suggestive poses"
• assaultive 0
  adj 1: disposed to attack [syn: assaultive, attacking(a)]
• uninventive 0
  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]
• decongestive 0
• extinctive 0
• indigestive 0
• indistinctive 0
• injunctive 0
• irretentive 0
• esteve 0
• pendentive 0
• unsuggestive 0

See also restive definition and restive synonyms