inclusive | (adjective) including much or everything; and especially including stated limits | - |
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incommunicative | (adjective) not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions | Synonyms: uncommunicative |
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incomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: noncomprehensive |
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inconclusive | (adjective) not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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incorporative | (adjective) growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories | - |
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inculpative | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpatory |
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incursive | (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: invading, invasive |
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indecisive | (adjective) not definitely settling something | - |
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(adjective) characterized by lack of decision and firmness | - |
(adjective) not clearly defined | - |
indicative | (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: declarative |
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(adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
inducive | (adjective) inducing or influencing; leading on | Synonyms: inductive |
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inductive | (adjective) of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion | - |
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(adjective) arising from inductance | - |
(adjective) inducing or influencing; leading on | Synonyms: inducive |
ineffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, uneffective |
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(adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffectual, unable |
(adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: inefficient |
inexpensive | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: cheap |
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inexpressive | (adjective) not expressive | - |
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infective | (adjective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection | Synonyms: infectious |
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(adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: morbific, pathogenic |
informative | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informatory |
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(adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, illuminating |
(adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: instructive |
initiative | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiatory, maiden |
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innovative | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: groundbreaking, innovational |
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(adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, modern |
inoffensive | (adjective) giving no offense | - |
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(adjective) not causing anger or annoyance | Synonyms: unoffending |
inoperative | (adjective) not working or taking effect | - |
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inquisitive | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: questioning, speculative, wondering |
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(adjective) inquiring or appearing to inquire | - |
inscriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an inscription | - |
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insensitive | (adjective) not responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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(adjective) deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive | - |
instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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(adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
intensive | (adjective) of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor | - |
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(adjective) tending to give force or emphasis | - |
(adjective) characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form | - |
interactive | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: synergistic |
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(adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactional |
interoceptive | (adjective) of or relating to interoception | - |
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interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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interrogative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogatory |
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(adjective) relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood | - |
intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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introvertive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introversive |
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intrusive | (adjective) tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) | - |
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(adjective) thrusting inward | - |
(adjective) of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock | - |
intuitive | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: nonrational, visceral |
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(adjective) spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency | - |
invasive | (adjective) marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue | - |
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(adjective) relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision | - |
(adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing |
(adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invading |
inventive | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: imaginative |
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investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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irruptive | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: plutonic |
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iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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(adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
laxative | (adjective) stimulating evacuation of feces | - |
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legislative | (adjective) of or relating to or created by legislation | - |
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(adjective) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature | - |
lenitive | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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live | (adjective) possessing life | Synonyms: alive |
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(adjective) exerting force or containing energy | - |
(adjective) actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing | Synonyms: unrecorded |
(adjective) charged or energized with electricity | Synonyms: hot |
(adjective) of current relevance | - |
(adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, lively, resilient, springy |
(adjective) abounding with life and energy | - |
(adjective) charged with an explosive | - |
(adjective) highly reverberant | - |
(adjective) in current use or ready for use | - |
(adjective) capable of erupting | Synonyms: alive |
locomotive | (adjective) of or relating to locomotion | Synonyms: locomotor |
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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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maladaptive | (adjective) showing faulty adaptation | - |
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maladjustive | (adjective) poorly adjusted | - |
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manipulative | (adjective) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage | - |
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massive | (adjective) consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter | - |
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(adjective) imposing in size or bulk or solidity | Synonyms: monolithic, monumental |
(adjective) being the same substance throughout | - |
(adjective) imposing in scale or scope or degree or power | - |
medicative | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicinal |
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meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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meliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory |
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mitigative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigatory, palliative |
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motivative | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motive |
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motive | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motor |
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(adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motivative |
multiplicative | (adjective) tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree | - |
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mutative | (adjective) of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation | - |
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naive | (adjective) marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience | Synonyms: naif |
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(adjective) not initiated; deficient in relevant experience | Synonyms: uninitiate, uninitiated |
(adjective) inexperienced | - |
(adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: unenlightened, uninstructed |
(adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: primitive |
narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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native | (adjective) characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: aboriginal |
(adjective) belonging to one by birth | - |
(adjective) as found in nature in the elemental form | - |
negative | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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(adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
(adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
(adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
(adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
(adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
(adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
(adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
(adjective) less than zero | - |
nociceptive | (adjective) caused by or in response to pain | - |
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nominative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb | - |
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(adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominated |
(adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person | Synonyms: nominal |
nonabsorptive | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorbent |
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nonadaptive | (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: dysfunctional |
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nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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nonadhesive | (adjective) not tending to adhere | - |
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nonadsorptive | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorbent |
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nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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nonassociative | (adjective) not associative | - |
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noncausative | (adjective) not causative | Synonyms: noncausal |
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noncombinative | (adjective) not involving combination | - |
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noncompetitive | (adjective) not involving competition or competitiveness | - |
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noncomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: incomprehensive |
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nonconductive | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconducting |
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nonelective | (adjective) filled by appointment rather than by election | Synonyms: non-elective, nonelected |
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nonexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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nonexplosive | (adjective) not explosive | - |
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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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nonimitative | (adjective) not marked by or given to imitation | - |
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noninvasive | (adjective) relating to a technique that does not involve puncturing the skin or entering a body cavity | - |
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nonnative | (adjective) not being or composed of aborigines | - |
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(adjective) of persons born in another area or country than that lived in | Synonyms: foreign-born |
(adjective) of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing | - |
nonnegative | (adjective) either positive or zero | - |
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nonnormative | (adjective) not based on a norm | - |
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nonobjective | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative |
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nonproductive | (adjective) not directly productive | - |
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nonprognosticative | (adjective) not offering prognostications | - |
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nonprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, standpat, unprogressive |
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nonpsychoactive | (adjective) not affecting the mind or mental processes | - |
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nonradioactive | (adjective) not radioactive | - |
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