Power Suffixes for Twelfth Grade Students: -ive

Learn these words formed with the suffix -ive meaning "inclined to; quality of; that which."
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  1. appreciative
    having or showing a favorable critical judgment or opinion
  2. elective
    not compulsory
  3. retrospective
    concerned with or related to the past
  4. intrusive
    tending to enter uninvited
  5. combative
    having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  6. assertive
    aggressively self-assured
  7. sportive
    given to merry frolicking
  8. disruptive
    characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
  9. repetitive
    persistent
  10. adaptive
    having a capacity for change
  11. dismissive
    showing indifference or disregard
  12. reactive
    participating in processes changing substances into others
  13. regressive
    opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state
Created on Fri Jun 06 13:03:24 EDT 2025

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