Words that come from English “-ive”
400 words across 1 languages descend from English -ive — including administrative, competitive, legislative, aggressive, subjective, protective, vengeance, adaptive.
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English (400)
- administrative
- competitive
- legislative
- aggressive
- subjective
- protective
- vengeance
- adaptive
- collaborative
- supportive
- cumulative
- reflective
- reactive
- oppressive
- instinctively
- instructive
- decorative
- preventive
- instinctive
- conductivity
- exhaustive
- conducive
- competitiveness
- retrospective
- constitutive
- connectivity
- disruptive
- coercive
- connective
- elective
- aggressively
- investigative
- avenge
- intrusive
- obsessive
- assertive
- appreciative
- repressive
- integrative
- obstructive
- refractive
- reactivity
- compressive
- associative
- evaluative
- deductive
- vindictive
- vindicate
- degenerative
- manipulative
- adoptive
- conductive
- vengeful
- correlative
- dismissive
- aggressiveness
- prohibitive
- congestive
- preemptive
- subjectively
- resistivity
- abrasive
- exploitative
- reflectively
- assertiveness
- maladaptive
- preventative
- collaboratively
- purposive
- dissociative
- retrospectively
- assistive
- remunerative
- convective
- delusive
- resistive
- infective
- combative
- intersubjective
- transgressive
- exhaustively
- educative
- regulative
- proliferative
- immunosuppressive
- anticompetitive
- ulcerative
- contrastive
- absorptive
- avenger
- dispersive
- reflectivity
- sportive
- competitively
- extractive
- neurodegenerative
- obsessively
- adjunctive
- appreciatively
- occlusive
- rehabilitative
- administratively
- allocative
- subjectivism
- dismissively
- illusive
- vendetta
- constitutively
- corroborative
- vindictiveness
- predicative
- eruptive
- prohibitively
- immersive
- protectively
- suppressive
- facilitative
- procreative
- cumulatively
- oppressively
- evaporative
- appetitive
- accommodative
- attributive
- superconductivity
- adaptively
- noncompetitive
- alliterative
- percussive
- immunoreactivity
- subtractive
- neuroprotective
- assertively
- infectivity
- unreflective
- accumulative
- deductively
- promotive
- calculative
- subjectivist
- purposiveness
- overprotective
- agentive
- uncompetitive
- constrictive
- immunoreactive
- interconnectivity
- protectiveness
- lymphoproliferative
- violative
- vindictively
- exploitive
- legislatively
- intrusiveness
- preemptively
- unappreciative
- afflictive
- duplicative
- combativeness
- conflictive
- infiltrative
- appointive
- aggregative
- nonreactive
- unsupportive
- ameliorative
- associativity
- procompetitive
- annotative
- adaptivity
- purposively
- antiproliferative
- eliminative
- coercively
- nonaggressive
- irritative
- abductive
- unremunerative
- adaptiveness
- ruminative
- advective
- myeloproliferative
- autoreactive
- illuminative
- digressive
- reflectiveness
- intersubjectively
- suspensive
- oppressiveness
- disintegrative
- dilutive
- assaultive
- coercivity
- decoratively
- acculturative
- factive
- reactively
- coordinative
- approximative
- instructively
- absorptivity
- enactive
- subjectivation
- agglomerative
- chemopreventive
- substitutive
- sportively
- appropriative
- noncoercive
- unreactive
- decompressive
- corruptive
- enumerative
- interruptive
- liberative
- emulative
- vindicator
- vengefulness
- dispersivity
- supportively
- concussive
- correlatively
- photoconductive
- conjugative
- supportiveness
- nonintrusive
- unassertive
- photorefractive
- exfoliative
- depictive
- preceptive
- unreflectively
- anticipative
- vasoconstrictive
- cardioprotective
- inhibitive
- hyperreactivity
- concentrative
- contractive
- uninstructive
- vengefully
- stipulative
- obliterative
- contributive
- exhaustiveness
- intrusively
- eliminativism
- aggressivity
- obsessiveness
- nonconductive
- nonadaptive
- eventive
- germinative
- piezoresistive
- preventively
- nonassertive
- associatively
- ingestive
- electively
- venge
- refractivity
- hypercompetitive
- noncumulative
- sportiveness
- restitutive
- cytoprotective
- colligative
- abrasiveness
- nonelective
- unaggressive
- malabsorptive
- attributively
- coagulative
- pressive
- distortive
- contrastively
- reintegrative
- coerciveness
- conduciveness
- accelerative
- simulative
- accretive
- gravitative
- photoconductivity
- reduplicative
- disclosive
- myelosuppressive
- incorporative
- mutative
- distractive
- subjectivistic
- exceptive
- radioprotective
- propagative
- nonassociative
- disruptiveness
- subjectivization
- nonreflective
- osteoconductive
- dominative
- photoprotective
- mandative
- segregative
- magnetoresistive
- situative
- dismissiveness
- adjustive
- repressiveness
- alloreactive
- ingressive
- nonexhaustive
- membranoproliferative
- deductivist
- predicatively
- combinative
- nonproliferative
- bioaccumulative
- eliminativist
- nonobstructive
- approximatively
- superconductive
- nonsupportive
- postabsorptive
- evaluatively
- ejective
- reactiveness
- overprotectiveness
- disruptively
- equative
- repressively
- mitigative
- factivity
- insulative
- ruminatively
- nondispersive
- derogative
- subjectiveness
- exaggerative
- cume
- nonevaluative
- concatenative
- adoptively
- obstructiveness
- instructiveness
- designative
- suffocative
- deductivism
- permeative
- terminative
- nonprocreative
- redressive
- combatively
- abrasively
- nondisruptive
- substitutivity
- cryoprotective
- remonstrative
- nonocclusive
- emancipative
- emanative
- delusively
- correlativity
- extrapolative
- vindicatory
- nonlegislative
- interventive
- discoursive
- overaggressive
- depreciative
- venger
- deflective
- manipulatively
- vasoreactivity
- manipulativeness
- renoprotective
- inflective
- insertive
- alloreactivity
- integratively
- hepatoprotective
- semiconductive
- overreactive
- resistively
- convectively
- displacive
- deteriorative
- photoreactive
- irreflective
- transgressively
- mediative
- decorativeness
- connectiveness
- combustive
- convolutive
- interceptive
- nonexploitative
- remuneratively
- transgressiveness
- illusiveness
- delusiveness