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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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 |
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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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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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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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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commemorative | (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
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comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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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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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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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 | - |
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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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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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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demonstrative | (noun) a pronoun that points out an intended referent | Synonyms: demonstrative pronoun |
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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 | - |
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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directive | (noun) a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity | - |
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disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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durative | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration | Synonyms: durative aspect |
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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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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 | - |
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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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 |
genitive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
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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 |
imperfective | (noun) aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the action of the verb | Synonyms: imperfective aspect |
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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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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 |
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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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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iterative | (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
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laxative | (noun) a mild cathartic | - |
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lenitive | (noun) remedy that eases pain and discomfort | - |
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locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: locative role |
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(noun) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. | Synonyms: locative case |
locomotive | (noun) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | Synonyms: engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive |
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motive | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, need |
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(noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motif |
(noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motif |
narrative | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
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native | (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
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(noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
(noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
negative | (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
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(noun) a reply of denial | - |
neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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nominative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
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objective | (noun) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens |
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(noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |
operative | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock |
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(noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
optative | (noun) a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs | Synonyms: optative mood |
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palliative | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
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partitive | (noun) word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | - |
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perfective | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action | Synonyms: perfective aspect |
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(noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect, perfect tense, perfective tense |
perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
positive | (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
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(noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
prerogative | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, privilege |
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preservative | (noun) a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition | - |
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preventative | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
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(noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventive, prophylactic device |
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventive |
preventive | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
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(noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, prophylactic device |
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative |
primitive | (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
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(noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
(noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
purgative | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, physic |
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recitative | (noun) a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech | - |
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relative | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, congeneric |
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(noun) a person related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: relation |
representative | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, instance |
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(noun) a person who represents others | - |
(noun) a member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
(noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, spokesperson, voice |
restorative | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: corrective |
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(noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: tonic |
retrospective | (noun) an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work | - |
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sedative | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, downer, sedative drug |
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sensitive | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
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siccative | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drier, drying agent |
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subjunctive | (noun) a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | Synonyms: subjunctive mood |
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substantive | (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
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superlative | (noun) an exaggerated expression (usually of praise) | - |
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(noun) the superlative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: superlative degree |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tiptop, top |
transitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical | Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form |
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ultraconservative | (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
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vasoconstrictive | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictor |
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vasodilative | (noun) a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels | Synonyms: vasodilator |
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vocative | (noun) the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed | Synonyms: vocative case |
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vomitive | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, nauseant, vomit |
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