| excogitative | (adjective) concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation | - |
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| executive | (adjective) having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc. | - |
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| (noun) persons who administer the law | - |
| (noun) a person responsible for the administration of a business | Synonyms: executive director |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: administrator |
| exhaustive | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: thorough, thoroughgoing |
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| exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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| exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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| expiative | (adjective) having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation | Synonyms: expiatory, propitiatory |
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| 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 | - |
| exploitative | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitatory, exploitive |
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| exploitive | (adjective) tending to exploit or make use of | Synonyms: exploitative, exploitatory |
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| explorative | (adjective) serving in or intended for exploration or discovery | Synonyms: exploratory |
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| expositive | (adjective) serving to expound or set forth | Synonyms: expository |
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| exteroceptive | (adjective) of or relating to exteroception | - |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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| extrovertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted |
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| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
| (adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
| (adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
| festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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| fictive | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham |
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| (adjective) capable of imaginative creation | - |
| figurative | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: nonliteral |
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| (adjective) consisting of or forming human or animal figures | Synonyms: figural |
| 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 | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
| (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
| frequentative | (noun) a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action | - |
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| fricative | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative consonant, spirant |
| frustrative | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, thwarting |
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| fugitive | (adjective) lasting for a markedly brief time | Synonyms: fleeting, momentaneous, momentary |
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| (noun) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice | Synonyms: fugitive from justice |
| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, runaway |
| furtive | (adjective) marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed | Synonyms: sneak, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious |
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| (adjective) secret and sly or sordid | Synonyms: backstair, backstairs |
| generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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| (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
| genitive | (adjective) serving to express or indicate possession | Synonyms: possessive |
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| (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive case, possessive, possessive case |
| gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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| gustative | (adjective) of or relating to gustation | Synonyms: gustatorial, gustatory |
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| hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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| hyperactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: overactive |
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| hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| hypoactive | (adjective) abnormally inactive | Synonyms: underactive |
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| illative | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference | Synonyms: inferential |
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| (adjective) expressing or preceding an inference | - |
| (adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference | Synonyms: inferential |
| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| imperative | (adjective) requiring attention or action | - |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the imperative mood | - |
| (noun) some duty that is essential and urgent | - |
| (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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| implicative | (adjective) tending to suggest or imply | Synonyms: suggestive |
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| inactive | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: nonoperational |
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| (adjective) not active physically or mentally | - |
| (adjective) (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly | - |
| (adjective) lacking activity; lying idle or unused | - |
| (adjective) lacking in energy or will | Synonyms: passive |
| (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: dormant |
| (adjective) not exerting influence or change | - |
| (adjective) not engaged in full-time work | - |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: motionless, static, still |
| (adjective) (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert | - |
| inattentive | (adjective) showing a lack of attention or care | - |
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| (adjective) not showing due care or attention | Synonyms: neglectful |
| 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 |
| inceptive | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inchoative |
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| inchoative | (adjective) in an initial stage | Synonyms: inceptive |
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| (noun) aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb | Synonyms: inchoative aspect |
| incitive | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| incommunicative | (adjective) not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions | Synonyms: uncommunicative |
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| incorporative | (adjective) growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories | - |
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| inculpative | (adjective) causing blame to be imputed to | Synonyms: inculpatory |
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| indicative | (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: declarative |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
| (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 |
| inductive | (adjective) of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion | - |
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| (adjective) arising from inductance | - |
| (adjective) inducing or influencing; leading on | Synonyms: inducive |
| ineffective | (adjective) not producing an intended effect | Synonyms: ineffectual, uneffective |
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| (adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffectual, unable |
| (adjective) lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate | Synonyms: inefficient |
| infective | (adjective) caused by infection or capable of causing infection | Synonyms: infectious |
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| (adjective) able to cause disease | Synonyms: morbific, pathogenic |
| infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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| informative | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informatory |
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| (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, illuminating |
| (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: instructive |
| initiative | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiatory, maiden |
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| (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, opening, opening move |
| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead |
| innovative | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: groundbreaking, innovational |
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| (adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, modern |
| inoperative | (adjective) not working or taking effect | - |
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| inquisitive | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: questioning, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) inquiring or appearing to inquire | - |
| inscriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an inscription | - |
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| insensitive | (adjective) not responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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| (adjective) deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive | - |
| instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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| instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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| instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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| integrative | (adjective) combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole | - |
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| (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: consolidative |
| interactive | (adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more) | Synonyms: synergistic |
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| (adjective) capable of acting on or influencing each other | Synonyms: interactional |
| interoceptive | (adjective) of or relating to interoception | - |
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| interpretative | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretive |
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| interpretive | (adjective) that provides interpretation | Synonyms: interpretative |
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| interrogative | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation | Synonyms: interrogatory |
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| (adjective) relating to verbs in the so-called interrogative mood | - |
| (noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative sentence, question |
| (noun) some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood | Synonyms: interrogative mood |
| intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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| (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
| introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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| introvertive | (adjective) directed inward; marked by interest in yourself or concerned with inner feelings | Synonyms: introversive |
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| intuitive | (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: nonrational, visceral |
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| (adjective) spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency | - |
| 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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| inventive | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: imaginative |
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| investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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| irrespective | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, disregardless, no matter, regardless |
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| irritative | (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritating |
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| irruptive | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: plutonic |
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| iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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| (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
| justificative | (adjective) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing | Synonyms: defensive, justificatory |
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| (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificatory, vindicatory |
| laxative | (adjective) stimulating evacuation of feces | - |
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| (noun) a mild cathartic | - |
| legislative | (adjective) of or relating to or created by legislation | - |
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| (adjective) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature | - |
| lenitive | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, mitigative, mitigatory, palliative |
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| (noun) remedy that eases pain and discomfort | - |
| 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 | (adjective) of or relating to locomotion | Synonyms: locomotor |
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| (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 |
| lucrative | (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: moneymaking, remunerative |
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| macerative | (adjective) accompanied by or characterized by maceration | - |
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| maladaptive | (adjective) showing faulty adaptation | - |
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| maladjustive | (adjective) poorly adjusted | - |
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| manipulative | (adjective) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage | - |
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| medicative | (adjective) having the properties of medicine | Synonyms: medicinal |
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| meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| meliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory |
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| mitigative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigatory, palliative |
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| motivative | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motive |
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| motive | (adjective) causing or able to cause motion | Synonyms: motor |
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| (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivating, motivative |
| (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 |
| (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 |