| purposive | (adjective) having or showing or acting with a purpose or design | - |
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| (adjective) having a purpose | Synonyms: goal-directed |
| recessive | (adjective) (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessionary |
| reclusive | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, secluded, sequestered |
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| (adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: recluse, withdrawn |
| recursive | (adjective) of or relating to a recursion | - |
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| 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 | - |
| repressive | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: inhibitory, repressing |
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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 |
| 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 |
| retrogressive | (adjective) going from better to worse | Synonyms: retrograde |
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| reversive | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: returning |
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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 |
| 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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| suffusive | (adjective) spreading through | - |
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| suppressive | (adjective) tending to suppress | - |
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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 |
| unaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: nonaggressive |
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| unapprehensive | (adjective) not recognizing or slow to recognize danger | - |
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| unexclusive | (adjective) not restricted or exclusive | Synonyms: unrestricted |
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| unexpansive | (adjective) showing no tendency to expand | - |
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| (adjective) not given to high spirits or effusiveness | - |
| unexpressive | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-faced |
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| unimpressive | (adjective) not capable of impressing | - |
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| unintrusive | (adjective) not interfering or meddling | Synonyms: not intrusive |
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| unobtrusive | (adjective) not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable | - |
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| unpermissive | (adjective) not inclined to grant permission; severe in discipline | - |
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| unpersuasive | (adjective) not capable of persuading | - |
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| unprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, nonprogressive, standpat |
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| unresponsive | (adjective) not responding to some influence or stimulus | - |
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| (adjective) aloof or indifferent | - |
| (adjective) not susceptible to suggestion or influence | - |
| unsubmissive | (adjective) not servile or submissive | Synonyms: unservile |
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