Adjectives are words that describe nouns, and the list of adjectives ending in ive is a comprehensive collection of 1,701 words. The list includes words such as ‘unquantitative’, meaning not able to be measured or counted, ‘addictive’, meaning causing a strong and harmful need to regularly have or do something, ‘macerative’, meaning softening or breaking down, ‘infusive’, meaning introducing gradually or subtly, and ‘recapitulative’, meaning summarizing or restating.
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Adjectives are a valuable tool for writers and speakers, as they help to give color and detail to a sentence. By using adjectives, a speaker or writer can bring a sentence to life and make it more interesting. This list of adjectives ending in ive is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to add more detail and color to their writing.
The words arranged in the lists below are in alphabetical order, from left to right and down.
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List Of 5-Letter Adjectives That End In “ive”
alive
List Of 6-Letter Adjectives That End In “ive”
votive
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List Of 7-Letter Adjectives That End In “ive”
abusive
amative
amusive
costive
declive
elusive
emotive
erosive
evasive
festive
fictive
furtive
jussive
massive
nonlive
pensive
restive
tensive
tussive
unitive
List Of 8-Letter Adjectives That End In “ive”
abortive
adaptive
adoptive
allusive
auditive
aversive
caritive
coactive
coercive
cohesive
conative
creative
crescive
decisive
delusive
denotive
derisive
dilative
divisive
eductive
effusive
egestive
elective
emissive
emulsive
enactive
erective
eruptive
evincive
excusive
exertive
fruitive
ideative
illusive
inactive
incisive
infusive
invasive
ligative
omissive
plausive
punitive
putative
reactive
rotative
sanative
seducive
sportive
spurtive
subolive
unnative
volitive
List Of 9-Letter Adjectives That End In “ive”
abjective
accretive
addictive
adductive
admissive
advective
agitative
appulsive
arrestive
ascensive
aspersive
assentive
assertive
assistive
assortive
assuasive
attentive
attestive
attritive
caressive
cessative
cognitive
collative
collusive
combative
commotive
conducive
connotive
contusive
corrasive
deceptive
decoctive
decretive
deductive
defective
depictive
depletive
detrusive
deviative
diffusive
divertive
divorcive
divulsive
educative
effective
emanative
embracive
emulative
enforcive
enhancive
evocative
evolutive
exceptive
excessive
excretive
excursive
exemptive
expansive
expensive
expulsive
extensive
extorsive
extortive
extrusive
exudative
factitive
forgetive
gestative
gustative
imitative
impactive
impassive
impulsive
inclusive
incursive
inductive
infective
ingestive
intrusive
intuitive
inventive
inversive
irruptive
isolative
iterative
lucrative
mediative
migrative
normative
obsessive
obtrusive
ostensive
oxidative
perfusive
pervasive
placative
plaintive
portative
preactive
precisive
privative
probative
profusive
promotive
pronative
purposive
radiative
receptive
reclusive
recursive
rejective
repletive
repulsive
resistive
retentive
retrusive
revertive
seclusive
secretive
seductive
selective
sensitive
suffusive
talkative
tentative
traditive
unabusive
unamative
unelusive
unemotive
unerosive
unevasive
unfestive
unpassive
variative
vibrative
violative
List Of 10-Letter Adjectives That End In “ive”
abdicative
abrogative
absorptive
abstersive
adjunctive
admirative
affinitive
afflictive
affrontive
aggressive
amputative
annotative
appetitive
applausive
appointive
appraisive
assumptive
attractive
automotive
capacitive
capitative
caritative
cogitative
combustive
commissive
completive
conceptive
concessive
conclusive
concoctive
concretive
concussive
conductive
congestive
consultive
contortive
convective
convertive
convictive
convulsive
copulative
corruptive
cumulative
decorative
deflective
defunctive
degressive
denotative
denudative
depressive
derogative
detonative
detractive
digressive
discursive
dismissive
dispersive
disruptive
dissuasive
distortive
dominative
dubitative
elongative
emigrative
enervative
entitative
eructative
estimative
evacuative
evaluative
excitative
execrative
exhaustive
exhibitive
exploitive
expressive
extinctive
federative
figurative
generative
hebetative
hesitative
impeditive
impressive
impunitive
imputative
incubative
indagative
indecisive
indurative
inflective
inflictive
injunctive
innovative
inspective
invocative
irrelative
irrigative
irritative
judicative
lacerative
levitative
liberative
limitative
lustrative
macerative
maturative
mitigative
motivative
mutilative
nonabusive
noncursive
nonelusive
nonemotive
nonerosive
nonevasive
nonfestive
nonfictive
obvolutive
occupative
oppressive
overactive
perceptive
percussive
perfective
permissive
perorative
persuasive
perversive
preceptive
presentive
pretensive
productive
projective
protestive
protrusive
readaptive
recreative
reflective
refractive
refutative
regressive
regulative
relaxative
renovative
reparative
repetitive
repressive
resolutive
resorptive
respective
responsive
resumptive
retreative
revelative
revocative
semiactive
separative
simulative
subfestive
submissive
successive
suggestive
suppletive
susceptive
suspensive
tolerative
tonalitive
transitive
ulcerative
unablative
unabortive
unabrasive
unadaptive
unadhesive
unadoptive
unallusive
uncohesive
uncreative
undelusive
underisive
undilative
undivisive
uneffusive
unejective
unelective
unemissive
uneruptive
unfixative
unfugitive
ungenitive
unillusive
unincisive
uninfusive
uninvasive
unlocative
unmutative
unpositive
unpunitive
unputative
unreactive
unrelative
unrotative
unsedative
unsportive
unvolitive
usurpative
vegetative
venerative
vindictive
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