abrasive | (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
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(adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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(adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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adhesive | (adjective) tending to adhere | - |
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admissive | (adjective) characterized by or allowing admission | - |
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aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
(adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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amusive | (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusing, diverting |
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apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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(adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
(adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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assuasive | (adjective) freeing from fear and anxiety | Synonyms: soothing |
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aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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coextensive | (adjective) being of equal extent or scope or duration | Synonyms: conterminous, coterminous |
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cohesive | (adjective) causing cohesion | - |
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(adjective) cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated | - |
collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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(adjective) broad in scope | - |
compulsive | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: determined, driven |
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(adjective) caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion | - |
concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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conclusive | (adjective) forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question | - |
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convulsive | (adjective) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm | Synonyms: spasmodic, spastic |
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(adjective) resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent | - |
corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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(adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
cursive | (adjective) having successive letters joined together | - |
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decisive | (adjective) determining or having the power to determine an outcome | - |
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(adjective) characterized by decision and firmness | - |
(adjective) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis | Synonyms: critical |
(adjective) unmistakable | - |
defensive | (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack | - |
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(adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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(adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
delusive | (adjective) inappropriate to reality or facts | Synonyms: false |
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derisive | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting |
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detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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diffusive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, dispersive, disseminative |
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digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
discursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition | Synonyms: dianoetic |
dismissive | (adjective) stopping to associate with | - |
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(adjective) showing indifference or disregard | - |
dispersive | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, disseminative |
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dissuasive | (adjective) deterring from action | - |
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divisive | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, factious |
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effusive | (adjective) extravagantly demonstrative | Synonyms: gushing, gushy |
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(adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, burbly, gushing |
elusive | (adjective) skillful at eluding capture | - |
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(adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
(adjective) difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze | Synonyms: subtle |
(adjective) difficult to describe | - |
erosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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(adjective) wearing away by friction | - |
evasive | (adjective) deliberately vague or ambiguous | - |
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(adjective) avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire | - |
excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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(adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
exclusive | (adjective) excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority | - |
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(adjective) not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective | Synonyms: single, undivided |
(adjective) not divided or shared with others | Synonyms: sole |
excursive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, rambling |
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expansive | (adjective) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion | - |
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(adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: talkative |
(adjective) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur | - |
(adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: grand, heroic |
expensive | (adjective) high in price or charging high prices | - |
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explosive | (adjective) serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst | - |
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(adjective) sudden and loud | - |
(adjective) liable to lead to sudden change or violence | Synonyms: volatile |
expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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(adjective) characterized by expression | - |
extensive | (adjective) of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor | - |
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(adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, panoptic, wide |
(adjective) large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity | Synonyms: extended |
extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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extroversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extraversive |
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extrusive | (adjective) of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface | - |
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hypertensive | (adjective) having abnormally high blood pressure | - |
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hypotensive | (adjective) having abnormally low blood pressure | - |
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illusive | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusory |
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immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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impassive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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(adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: stolid |
impressive | (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression | - |
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(adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: telling |
impulsive | (adjective) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason | Synonyms: capricious, whimsical |
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(adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: driving |
(adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, madcap, tearaway |
(adjective) proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus | Synonyms: unprompted |
(adjective) without forethought | - |
incisive | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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(adjective) suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
inclusive | (adjective) including much or everything; and especially including stated limits | - |
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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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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 | - |
inexpensive | (adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices | Synonyms: cheap |
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inexpressive | (adjective) not expressive | - |
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inoffensive | (adjective) giving no offense | - |
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(adjective) not causing anger or annoyance | Synonyms: unoffending |
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 | - |
introversive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introvertive |
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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 | - |
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 |
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 | - |
nonadhesive | (adjective) not tending to adhere | - |
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nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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noncomprehensive | (adjective) not comprehensive | Synonyms: incomprehensive |
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nonexplosive | (adjective) not explosive | - |
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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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nonprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, standpat, unprogressive |
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normotensive | (adjective) having normal blood pressure | - |
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obsessive | (adjective) characterized by or constituting an obsession | Synonyms: obsessional |
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obtrusive | (adjective) undesirably noticeable | - |
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(adjective) sticking out; protruding | - |
occlusive | (adjective) tending to occlude | - |
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offensive | (adjective) unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses | - |
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(adjective) causing anger or annoyance | - |
(adjective) for the purpose of attack rather than defense | - |
(adjective) morally offensive | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
(adjective) violating or tending to violate or offend against | Synonyms: violative |
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, sickening, vile |
omissive | (adjective) characterized by omissions | - |
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oppressive | (adjective) marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior | Synonyms: tyrannical, tyrannous |
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(adjective) weighing heavily on the senses or spirit | - |
ostensive | (adjective) represented or appearing as such; pretended | Synonyms: ostensible |
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(adjective) manifestly demonstrative | - |
passive | (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: inactive |
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(adjective) expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb | - |
(adjective) peacefully resistant in response to injustice | Synonyms: peaceful |
pensive | (adjective) showing pensive sadness | Synonyms: wistful |
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(adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
percussive | (adjective) involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments | - |
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permissive | (adjective) granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline | - |
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(adjective) not preventive | - |
persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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pervasive | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, permeative |
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perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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photoemissive | (adjective) of or relating to photoemission | - |
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plausive | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, approving |
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possessive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: genitive |
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(adjective) desirous of owning | - |
(adjective) having or showing a desire to control or dominate | - |
preclusive | (adjective) made impossible | Synonyms: obviating |
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progressive | (adjective) favoring or promoting progress | - |
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(adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | - |
(adjective) advancing in severity | - |
(adjective) gradually advancing in extent | - |
(adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist |
(adjective) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position | - |
propulsive | (adjective) having the power to propel | - |
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(adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propelling |
protrusive | (adjective) thrusting outward | - |
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