| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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| alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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| alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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| arbitrative | (adjective) relating to or having the authority to arbitrate | - |
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| aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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| autocratic | (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| biquadratic | (adjective) involving the fourth and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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| bureaucratic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy | - |
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| collaborative | (adjective) accomplished by collaboration | - |
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| commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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| commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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| commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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| comparative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) relating to or based on or involving comparison | - |
| confederative | (adjective) united in a confederacy or league | Synonyms: allied, confederate |
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| configurational | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by configuration | - |
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| conspirative | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspiratorial |
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| cooperative | (adjective) done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, united |
| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: accommodative |
| corporatist | (adjective) of or relating to corporatism | - |
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| corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| curative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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| declarative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: asserting, declaratory |
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| (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: indicative |
| decorative | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, ornamental |
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| degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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| deliberative | (adjective) involved in or characterized by deliberation and discussion and examination | - |
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| democratic | (adjective) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality | - |
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| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: popular |
| demonstrative | (adjective) given to or marked by the open expression of emotion | - |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: illustrative |
| denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| denigrative | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| erratic | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: fickle, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) likely to perform unpredictably | Synonyms: temperamental |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: planetary, wandering |
| evaporative | (adjective) relating to or causing or being caused by evaporation | - |
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| exasperating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: infuriating, maddening, vexing |
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| (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: aggravating, exacerbating |
| exhilarating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: elating |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: stimulating |
| exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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| explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
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| (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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| generational | (adjective) of or relating to a generation | - |
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| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| gratified | (adjective) having received what was desired | - |
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| gratifying | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable |
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| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: sweet |
| grating | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| gratis | (adjective) costing nothing | Synonyms: complimentary, costless, free, gratuitous |
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| hieratic | (adjective) written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing | - |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratical, priestly, sacerdotal |
| (adjective) adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal | - |
| hieratical | (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, priestly, sacerdotal |
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| idiosyncratic | (adjective) peculiar to the individual | - |
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| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
| incorporative | (adjective) growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories | - |
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| ingratiating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiatory, insinuating |
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| (adjective) capable of winning favor | - |
| ingratiatory | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, insinuating |
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| (adjective) pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade | Synonyms: coaxing |
| inoperative | (adjective) not working or taking effect | - |
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| inspirational | (adjective) imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul | - |
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| integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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| (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
| invigorating | (adjective) imparting strength and vitality | - |
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| irrational | (adjective) not consistent with or using reason | - |
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| (adjective) real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers | - |
| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| lucrative | (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative |
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| macerative | (adjective) accompanied by or characterized by maceration | - |
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| maturational | (adjective) relating to or involved in maturation | - |
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| meliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory |
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| meritocratic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy | - |
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| migrational | (adjective) of or related to migration | - |
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| moderating | (adjective) lessening in intensity or strength | - |
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| narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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| nonexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| nonoperational | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: inactive |
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| nonrational | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: intuitive, visceral |
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| (adjective) not based on reason | - |
| nonsuppurative | (adjective) not suppurative | - |
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| operatic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of opera | - |
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| operating | (adjective) involved in a kind of operation | - |
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| (adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operational |
| operational | (adjective) (military) of or intended for or involved in military operations | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a process or series of actions for achieving a result | - |
| (adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operating |
| (adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: functional, operable, usable, useable |
| operationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or espousing operationalism | - |
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| operative | (adjective) being in force or having or exerting force | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine | Synonyms: surgical |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, running, working |
| (adjective) effective; producing a desired effect | - |
| pejorative | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, dyslogistic |
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| penetrating | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrative |
| penetrative | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrating |
| piratical | (adjective) characteristic of pirates | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of piracy | - |
| plutocratic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratical |
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| plutocratical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat | Synonyms: plutocratic |
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| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| preoperative | (adjective) happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation | - |
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| preparative | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparatory, propaedeutic |
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| preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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| presocratic | (adjective) before the time of Socrates | Synonyms: pre-Socratic |
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| quadratic | (adjective) involving the second and no higher power of a quantity or degree | - |
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