Words that rhyme with sedative

• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• consultative 0
  adj 1: giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function was purely consultative" [syn: advisory, consultative, consultatory, consultive]
• derogative 0
  adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
• 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
• 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"
• 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]
• 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]
• 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"
• negative 0
  adj 1: characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; "a negative outlook on life"; "a colorless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"; "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign" [ant: neutral, positive] 2: expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial [ant: affirmative, affirmatory] 3: having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant; "ran a negative campaign"; "delinquents retarded by their negative outlook on life" 4: not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition; "the HIV test was negative" [syn: negative, disconfirming] [ant: confirming, positive] 5: reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive; "negative interest rates" [ant: positive] 6: less than zero; "a negative number" 7: designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism" [syn: damaging, negative] 8: having a negative charge; "electrons are negative" [syn: negative, electronegative, negatively charged] 9: involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors" [syn: minus, negative] n 1: a reply of denial; "he answered in the negative" [ant: affirmative] 2: a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed v 1: vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill" [syn: veto, blackball, negative]
• 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]
• relative 0
  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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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
• portative 0
• reduplicative 0
• resuscitative 0
• dubitative 0
• entitative 0
• irrigative 0
• perturbative 0
• presentative 0
• denudative 0

See also sedative definition and sedative synonyms