Words ending in "-ATIVE"

Dr. Ravi P. Reddy (India)
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  1. ablative
    the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
  2. accelerative
    tending to increase velocity
  3. accommodative
    tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony
  4. acculturative
    of or relating to acculturation
  5. accumulative
    increasing by successive addition
  6. accusative
    containing or expressing accusation
  7. adaptative
    having a capacity for adaptation
  8. adjudicative
    concerned with adjudicating
  9. administrative
    responsible for managing the affairs of a group of people
  10. adumbrative
    indistinctly prophetic
  11. adversative
    expressing antithesis or opposition
  12. affirmative
    giving assent
  13. affricative
    a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')
  14. agglomerative
    clustered together but not coherent
  15. agglutinative
    united as if by glue
  16. aggregative
    formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
  17. agitative
    causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
  18. alimentative
    related to the supply of aliment
  19. alleviative
    moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
  20. alliterative
    having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable
  21. alterative
    tending to cure or restore to health
  22. alternative
    one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
  23. amalgamative
    characterized by or tending toward amalgamation
  24. amative
    inclined toward or displaying love
  25. ameliorative
    tending to ameliorate
  26. annihilative
    wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction
  27. anticipative
    marked by eager anticipation
  28. anticoagulative
    of or relating to an anticoagulant
  29. appellative
    identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
  30. applicative
    readily applicable or practical
  31. appreciative
    having or showing a favorable critical judgment or opinion
  32. approbative
    expressing or manifesting praise or approval
  33. appropriative
    of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself
  34. approximative
    not quite exact or correct
  35. arbitrative
    relating to or having the authority to arbitrate
  36. argumentative
    given to or characterized by a tendency to dispute
  37. articulative
    of or relating to articulation
  38. assimilative
    capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution
  39. associative
    resulting from bringing ideas together in the imagination
  40. augmentative
    intensifying by augmentation and enhancement
  41. authoritative
    of recognized power or excellence
  42. calculative
    good at tricking people to get something
  43. carminative
    relieving gas in the alimentary tract
  44. causative
    producing an effect
  45. circulative
    of or relating to circulation
  46. cogitative
    of or relating to having capacities for cogitation
  47. collaborative
    accomplished by working jointly
  48. combative
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  49. combinative
    marked by or relating to or resulting from combination
  50. commemorative
    intended to honor the memory of someone or something
  51. commiserative
    feeling or expressing sympathy
  52. communicative
    able or tending to transmit a message
  53. commutative
    independent of order; as in e.g. "a x b = b x a"
  54. comparative
    involving the examination of similarities and differences
  55. conciliative
    intended to placate
  56. confederative
    united in a confederacy or league
  57. confirmative
    serving to support or corroborate
  58. confutative
    able to be refuted
  59. connotative
    implying or suggesting something extra
  60. conservative
    resistant to change
  61. consolidative
    tending to consolidate
  62. conspirative
    relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators
  63. consultative
    giving advice
  64. contaminative
    making impure by contact or mixing
  65. contemplative
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  66. continuative
    an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
  67. cooperative
    involving the joint activity of two or more
  68. coordinative
    serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction
  69. copulative
    an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence
  70. correlative
    expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation
  71. corroborative
    serving to support or corroborate
  72. creative
    having the ability or power to invent or make something
  73. criminative
    charging or suggestive of guilt or blame
  74. cumulative
    increasing by successive addition
  75. curative
    tending to cure or restore to health
  76. dative
    the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb
  77. debilitative
    causing debilitation
  78. declarative
    relating to an explicit statement or announcement
  79. decorative
    serving an ornamental rather than a useful purpose
  80. degenerative
    (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function
  81. deliberative
    involved in or relating to close analysis and discussion
  82. delineative
    depicted in a recognizable manner
  83. demonstrative
    a pronoun that points out an intended referent
  84. denigrative
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  85. denotative
    having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming
  86. denunciative
    containing warning of punishment
  87. deprecative
    tending to diminish or disparage
  88. depreciative
    tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
  89. derivative
    a compound obtained from another compound
  90. derogative
    expressive of low opinion
  91. designative
    serving to designate
  92. determinative
    a determining or causal element or factor
  93. detonative
    exploding almost instantaneously
  94. discriminative
    capable of making fine distinctions
  95. disintegrative
    tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts
  96. disputative
    inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
  97. disseminative
    spreading by diffusion
  98. dissimulative
    concealing under a false appearance with the intent to deceive
  99. dissociative
    tending to produce dissociation
  100. durative
    the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration
  101. educative
    resulting in education
  102. electronegative
    having a negative charge
  103. elucidative
    that makes clear
  104. emancipative
    tending to set free
  105. evaluative
    exercising or involving careful appraisals
  106. evaporative
    relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation
  107. evocative
    serving to bring to mind
  108. excitative
    (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate
  109. excogitative
    concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation
  110. exhortative
    giving strong encouragement
  111. exonerative
    providing absolution
  112. exploitative
    tending to exploit or make use of
  113. explorative
    serving in or intended for exploration or discovery
  114. facilitative
    freeing from difficulty or impediment
  115. facultative
    of or relating to the mental faculties
  116. figurative
    not literal
  117. fixative
    a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study
  118. formative
    minimal language unit that has a syntactic function
  119. frequentative
    a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action
  120. fricative
    a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
  121. frustrative
    preventing realization or attainment of a desire
  122. generative
    having the ability to produce or originate
  123. gravitative
    of or relating to or caused by gravitation
  124. gustative
    of or relating to gustation
  125. hortative
    serving to urge or call to action
  126. illative
    relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
  127. illustrative
    clarifying by use of examples
  128. imaginative
    marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
  129. imitative
    marked by or given to imitation
  130. imperative
    requiring attention or action
  131. implicative
    tending to suggest or imply
  132. inchoative
    beginning to develop
  133. incommunicative
    not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions
  134. incorporative
    growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories
  135. inculpative
    causing blame to be imputed to
  136. indicative
    pointing out or revealing clearly
  137. informative
    serving to instruct or enlighten
  138. initiative
    readiness to embark on bold new ventures
  139. innovative
    introducing new ideas or creative methods
  140. inoperative
    not working or taking effect
  141. instigative
    inciting action or rebellion
  142. integrative
    combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole
  143. interpretative
    providing explanation
  144. interrogative
    relating to sentences that ask a question
  145. investigative
    designed to find information or ascertain facts
  146. irritative
    (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite
  147. iterative
    marked by repetition
  148. justificative
    attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing
  149. laxative
    stimulating evacuation of feces
  150. legislative
    relating to a lawmaking assembly
  151. locative
    the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb
  152. lucrative
    producing a sizeable profit
  153. macerative
    accompanied by or characterized by maceration
  154. manipulative
    skillful in influencing others to one's own advantage
  155. medicative
    having the properties of medicine
  156. meditative
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  157. meliorative
    tending to ameliorate
  158. mitigative
    moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
  159. motivative
    impelling to action
  160. multiplicative
    having the power to increase in number, quantity, or degree
  161. mutative
    of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation
  162. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  163. native
    belonging to one by birth
  164. negative
    characterized by denial or opposition or resistance
  165. neoconservative
    a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism
  166. nominative
    appointed by nomination
  167. nonassociative
    not associative
  168. noncausative
    not causative
  169. noncombinative
    not involving combination
  170. nonfigurative
    not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
  171. nonimitative
    not marked by or given to imitation
  172. nonnative
    of persons born in another area or country than that lived in
  173. nonnegative
    either positive or zero
  174. nonnormative
    not based on a norm
  175. nonprognosticative
    not offering prognostications
  176. nonrepresentative
    not standing for something else
  177. nonsuppurative
    not suppurative
  178. normative
    relating to or dealing with typical standards or patterns
  179. operative
    producing a desired effect
  180. opinionative
    obstinate in your opinions
  181. optative
    indicating an option or wish
  182. originative
    containing seeds of later development
  183. oxidative
    taking place in the presence of oxygen
  184. palliative
    moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
  185. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  186. penetrative
    having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  187. permeative
    spreading or spread throughout
  188. placative
    intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
  189. postoperative
    happening or done after a surgical operation
  190. precative
    expressing entreaty or supplication
  191. predicative
    of adjectives
  192. prefigurative
    indistinctly prophetic
  193. preoperative
    happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation
  194. preparative
    preceding and preparing for something
  195. prerogative
    a right reserved exclusively by a person or group
  196. preservative
    tending or having the power to protect or prevent decay
  197. preventative
    tending to hinder
  198. probative
    tending to prove a proposition or allegation
  199. procreative
    producing new life or offspring
  200. prognosticative
    relating to prediction
  201. propagative
    characterized by propagation or relating to propagation
  202. propitiative
    intended to reconcile or appease
  203. provocative
    serving or tending to excite or stimulate
  204. purgative
    strongly laxative
  205. putative
    purported
  206. qualitative
    involving distinguishing attributes
  207. quantitative
    expressible as an amount that can be measured
  208. ratiocinative
    based on exact thinking
  209. rebarbative
    serving or tending to repel
  210. reciprocative
    given or done or owed to each other
  211. recitative
    a song delivered with natural rhythms of speech
  212. recriminative
    countering one charge with another
  213. recuperative
    promoting recuperation
  214. reformative
    tending to reform
  215. regulative
    restricting according to rules or principles
  216. rehabilitative
    helping to restore to good condition
  217. reiterative
    marked by iteration
  218. relative
    not absolute or complete
  219. remunerative
    for which money is paid
  220. renunciative
    used especially of behavior
  221. representative
    serving to typify
  222. repudiative
    rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning
  223. restorative
    tending to impart new life and vigor to
  224. reverberative
    characterized by resonance
  225. ruminative
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
  226. sanative
    tending to cure or restore to health
  227. sanctionative
    implying sanction or serving to sanction
  228. sedative
    tending to soothe or tranquilize
  229. separative
    serving to separate or divide into parts
  230. siccative
    a substance that promotes drying
  231. significative
    (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
  232. speculative
    not based on fact or investigation
  233. stative
    expressing existence or a state rather than an action
  234. sternutative
    causing sneezing
  235. stimulative
    capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent
  236. subordinative
    serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause
  237. substantiative
    serving to support or corroborate
  238. suffocative
    causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
  239. summative
    of or relating to a summation or produced by summation
  240. superlative
    highest in quality
  241. suppurative
    relating to or characterized by suppuration
  242. talkative
    friendly and open and willing to communicate
  243. tentative
    hesitant or lacking confidence; unsettled in mind or opinion
  244. terminative
    coming to an end
  245. ulcerative
    of or relating to or characterized by ulceration
  246. ultraconservative
    extremely conservative
  247. unappreciative
    not feeling or expressing gratitude
  248. unargumentative
    not given to or characterized by argument
  249. uncommunicative
    not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions
  250. uncooperative
    unwilling to cooperate
  251. uncreative
    not creative
  252. undemonstrative
    not given to open expression of emotion
  253. underivative
    not derivative or imitative
  254. unimaginative
    deficient in originality or creativity
  255. uninformative
    lacking information
  256. unprovocative
    not provocative
  257. unremunerative
    not yielding profit or recompense
  258. unrepresentative
    not exemplifying a class
  259. untalkative
    temperamentally disinclined to talk
  260. vasodilative
    a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels
  261. vegetative
    of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous
  262. violative
    violating or tending to violate or offend against
  263. vituperative
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
  264. vocative
    relating to a case used in some languages
Created on Thu Feb 21 11:44:43 EST 2013 (updated Thu Feb 21 20:08:55 EST 2013)

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