reclusive | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, secluded, sequestered |
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(adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: recluse, withdrawn |
recollective | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, retentive, tenacious |
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reconstructive | (adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: rehabilitative |
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recriminative | (adjective) countering one charge with another | Synonyms: recriminatory |
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recuperative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: restorative |
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recursive | (adjective) of or relating to a recursion | - |
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redemptive | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptory |
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(adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redeeming, saving |
reductive | (adjective) characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment | - |
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reflective | (adjective) capable of physically reflecting light or sound | - |
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(adjective) devoted to matters of the mind | - |
(adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, ruminative |
reflexive | (adjective) referring back to itself | Synonyms: self-referent |
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(adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: automatic, reflex |
reformative | (adjective) tending to reform | Synonyms: reformatory |
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refractive | (adjective) of or relating to or capable of refraction | Synonyms: refractile |
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(adjective) capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave) | Synonyms: deflective |
regressive | (adjective) opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state | - |
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(adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases | - |
regulative | (adjective) restricting according to rules or principles | Synonyms: regulatory |
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rehabilitative | (adjective) designed to accomplish rehabilitation | - |
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(adjective) helping to restore to good condition | Synonyms: reconstructive |
reiterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: iterative |
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rejective | (adjective) rejecting or tending to reject | - |
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relative | (adjective) estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete | Synonyms: comparative |
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(adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: proportional |
remunerative | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, salaried, stipendiary |
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(adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, moneymaking |
renunciative | (adjective) used especially of behavior | Synonyms: renunciant, self-abnegating, self-denying |
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repetitive | (adjective) characterized by repetition | Synonyms: repetitious |
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(adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: insistent |
representative | (adjective) standing for something else | - |
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(adjective) being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives | - |
(adjective) serving to represent or typify | - |
repressive | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: inhibitory, repressing |
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reproductive | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, procreative |
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repudiative | (adjective) rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning | - |
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repulsive | (adjective) possessing the ability to repel | - |
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(adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant |
(adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: hideous |
resistive | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to electrical resistance | - |
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(adjective) disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | Synonyms: insubordinate, resistant |
respective | (adjective) considered individually | Synonyms: several, various |
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responsive | (adjective) readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion | - |
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(adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: antiphonal |
(adjective) reacting to a stimulus | Synonyms: reactive |
restive | (adjective) impatient especially under restriction or delay | - |
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(adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, uptight |
restorative | (adjective) promoting recuperation | Synonyms: recuperative |
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(adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, revitalising, revitalizing, reviving |
restrictive | (adjective) serving to restrict | - |
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(adjective) (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports | - |
retaliative | (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliatory, retributive, retributory, vindicatory |
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retentive | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, tenacious |
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(adjective) having the capacity to retain something | - |
(adjective) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water | - |
retributive | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributory, vindicatory |
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(adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory |
retroactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously | - |
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(adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retro |
retrogressive | (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrograde |
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retrospective | (adjective) concerned with or related to the past | - |
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reverberative | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating |
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reversive | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: returning |
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ruminative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective |
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sanative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, healing, remedial, therapeutic |
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sanctionative | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctioning |
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secretive | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, tightlipped |
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sedative | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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seductive | (adjective) tending to entice into a desired action or state | - |
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selective | (adjective) tending to select; characterized by careful choice | - |
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(adjective) characterized by very careful or fastidious selection | - |
semiconductive | (adjective) having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors | Synonyms: semiconducting |
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sensitive | (adjective) responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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(adjective) being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others | - |
(adjective) able to feel or perceive | Synonyms: sensible |
(adjective) of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security | - |
(adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sore, tender |
separative | (adjective) (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group | - |
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(adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: partitive |
(adjective) (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it | - |
significative | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, suggestive |
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speculative | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, wondering |
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(adjective) not based on fact or investigation | Synonyms: notional |
(adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, risky |
sportive | (adjective) relating to or interested in sports | - |
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(adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking |
stative | (adjective) (used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action | - |
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sternutative | (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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stimulative | (adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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subjective | (adjective) taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias | - |
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(adjective) of a mental act performed entirely within the mind | Synonyms: immanent |
subjunctive | (adjective) relating to a mood of verbs | - |
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submissive | (adjective) inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination | - |
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(adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: slavish, subservient |
subordinative | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinating |
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substantiative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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substantive | (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: essential |
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(adjective) of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something | Synonyms: substantial |
(adjective) being on topic and prompting thought | Synonyms: meaty |
subtractive | (adjective) constituting or involving subtraction | - |
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subversive | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, seditious |
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successive | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial |
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suffocative | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, smothering, suffocating |
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suffusive | (adjective) spreading through | - |
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suggestive | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: implicative |
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(adjective) tending to suggest something improper or indecent | - |
(adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, significative |
summative | (adjective) of or relating to a summation or produced by summation | Synonyms: summational |
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superlative | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, sterling |
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supersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized |
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supportive | (adjective) furnishing support or assistance | - |
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suppressive | (adjective) tending to suppress | - |
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suppurative | (adjective) relating to or characterized by suppuration | - |
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suspensive | (adjective) undecided or characterized by indecisiveness | - |
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(adjective) (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | Synonyms: cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspenseful |
talkative | (adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: expansive |
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(adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabbermouthed, blabby |
(adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talky |
tardive | (adjective) late-occurring (especially with reference to symptoms of a disease) | - |
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tentative | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, provisionary |
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(adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: doubtful |
terminative | (adjective) coming to an end | - |
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tractive | (adjective) exerting traction and serving to pull | - |
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transitive | (adjective) designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning | - |
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ulcerative | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by ulceration | - |
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ultraconservative | (adjective) extremely conservative | - |
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unacquisitive | (adjective) not acquisitive; not interested in acquiring or owning anything | - |
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unaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: nonaggressive |
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unappreciative | (adjective) not feeling or expressing gratitude | - |
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unapprehensive | (adjective) not recognizing or slow to recognize danger | - |
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unargumentative | (adjective) not given to or characterized by argument | - |
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unassertive | (adjective) inclined to timidity or lack of self-confidence | - |
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unattractive | (adjective) lacking beauty or charm | - |
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(adjective) lacking power to arouse interest | - |
(adjective) not appealing to the senses | Synonyms: untempting |
uncommunicative | (adjective) not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions | Synonyms: incommunicative |
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uncompetitive | (adjective) not inclined to compete | - |
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unconstructive | (adjective) not constructive | - |
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uncooperative | (adjective) unwilling to cooperate | - |
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(adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: disobliging |
uncreative | (adjective) not creative | - |
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undemonstrative | (adjective) not given to open expression of emotion | - |
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underactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: hypoactive |
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underivative | (adjective) not derivative or imitative | - |
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undescriptive | (adjective) not successful in describing | - |
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uneffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffective, ineffectual |
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