| ablative | (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
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| accusative | (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
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| acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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| active | (noun) a person who is a participating member of an organization | - |
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| (noun) the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb | Synonyms: active voice |
| (noun) chemical agent capable of activity | Synonyms: active agent |
| activeness | (noun) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically | Synonyms: activity |
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| (noun) the state of being active | Synonyms: action, activity |
| activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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| additive | (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
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| adjective | (noun) a word that expresses an attribute of something | - |
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| (noun) the word class that qualifies nouns | - |
| affirmative | (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
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| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| affricative | (noun) a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') | Synonyms: affricate, affricate consonant |
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| alternative | (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
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| amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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| antivenene | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenin |
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| antivenin | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenene |
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| appellative | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
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| appreciativeness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: gratefulness, thankfulness |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
| attractiveness | (noun) sexual allure | - |
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| (noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attraction |
| captive | (noun) an animal that is confined | - |
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| (noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: prisoner |
| (noun) a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion | - |
| carminative | (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
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| collective | (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
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| combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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| commemorative | (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
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| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| conjunctive | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
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| connective | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
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| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| conservative | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
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| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| consumptive | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
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| contemplative | (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
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| contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| contraceptive | (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
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| cooperative | (noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
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| (noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
| cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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| copulative | (noun) an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence | Synonyms: copula, linking verb |
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| corrective | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
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| correlative | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
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| creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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| curative | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
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| dative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb | Synonyms: dative case |
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| deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| declarative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
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| decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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| defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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| demonstrative | (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
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| demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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| derivative | (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derived function, differential, differential coefficient, first derivative |
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| (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word | - |
| (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security | Synonyms: derivative instrument |
| (noun) a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound | - |
| destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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| detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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| (noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
| determinative | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
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| (noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
| digestive | (noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
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| diminutive | (noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
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| diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| directive | (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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| directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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| effectiveness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectivity, effectuality, effectualness |
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| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: potency, strength |
| ejective | (noun) a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis. | Synonyms: ejective consonant |
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| elective | (noun) a course that the student can select from among alternatives | Synonyms: elective course |
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| electiveness | (noun) Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed. | Synonyms: optionality |
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| executive | (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
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| (noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
| expletive | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse, curse word, cuss, oath, swearing, swearword |
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| (noun) a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line | - |
| figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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| (noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
| fixative | (noun) a varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging | - |
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| (noun) a compound (such as ethanol or formaldehyde) that fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study | - |
| formative | (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
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| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| fricative | (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
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| fricativeness | (noun) (phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/. | - |
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| fugitive | (noun) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice | Synonyms: fugitive from justice |
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| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, runaway |
| furtiveness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: sneakiness, stealthiness |
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| genitive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
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| imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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| imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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| imperative | (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
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| (noun) a verb in the imperative mood. | Synonyms: imperative verb |
| (noun) a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior | Synonyms: imperative form, imperative mood, jussive mood |
| imperativeness | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: instancy |
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| (noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: insistence, insistency, press, pressure |
| imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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| inactiveness | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactivity, inertia |
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| (noun) the state of being inactive | Synonyms: inaction, inactivity |
| inattentiveness | (noun) the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heedlessness |
| incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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| (noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
| inchoative | (noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |
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| indicative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative mood |
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| ineffectiveness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectuality, ineffectualness |
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| infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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| initiative | (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, opening, opening move |
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| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead |
| injectiveness | (noun) (mathematics) The state or quality of relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain). | - |
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| innovativeness | (noun) originality by virtue of introducing new ideas | - |
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| inquisitiveness | (noun) The quality of being curious and interested. | - |
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| (noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: curiousness |
| insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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| interrogative | (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative sentence, question |
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| (noun) some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood | Synonyms: interrogative mood |
| intransitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
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| intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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| introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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| invective | (noun) abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will | Synonyms: vitriol, vituperation |
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