| multiplicative | (adjective) tending or having the power to multiply or increase in number or quantity or degree | - |
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| mutative | (adjective) of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation | - |
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| narrative | (adjective) consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story | - |
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| (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 |
| native | (adjective) characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: aboriginal |
| (adjective) belonging to one by birth | - |
| (adjective) as found in nature in the elemental form | - |
| (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
| (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 | (adjective) expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features | - |
| (adjective) not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition | Synonyms: disconfirming |
| (adjective) reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive | - |
| (adjective) having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant | - |
| (adjective) having a negative charge | Synonyms: electronegative, negatively charged |
| (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: damaging |
| (adjective) involving disadvantage or harm | Synonyms: minus |
| (adjective) less than zero | - |
| (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| (verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: blackball, veto |
| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| nociceptive | (adjective) caused by or in response to pain | - |
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| nominative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb | - |
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| (adjective) appointed by nomination | Synonyms: nominated |
| (adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person | Synonyms: nominal |
| (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
| nonabsorptive | (adjective) not capable of absorbing or soaking up (liquids) | Synonyms: nonabsorbent |
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| nonadaptive | (adjective) (of a trait or condition) failing to serve an adjustive purpose | Synonyms: dysfunctional |
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| nonaddictive | (adjective) not causing or characterized by addiction | - |
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| nonadsorptive | (adjective) lacking a capacity to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface | Synonyms: nonadsorbent |
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| nonappointive | (adjective) filled by popular election rather than by appointment | - |
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| nonassertive | (adjective) not aggressively self-assured, though not necessarily lacking in confidence | - |
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| nonassociative | (adjective) not associative | - |
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| noncausative | (adjective) not causative | Synonyms: noncausal |
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| noncombinative | (adjective) not involving combination | - |
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| noncompetitive | (adjective) not involving competition or competitiveness | - |
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| nonconductive | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconducting |
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| nonelective | (adjective) filled by appointment rather than by election | Synonyms: non-elective, nonelected |
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| nonexplorative | (adjective) not exploratory | Synonyms: nonexploratory, unexplorative, unexploratory |
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| nonfigurative | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonobjective |
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| nonimitative | (adjective) not marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| nonnative | (adjective) not being or composed of aborigines | - |
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| (adjective) of persons born in another area or country than that lived in | Synonyms: foreign-born |
| (adjective) of plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing | - |
| nonnegative | (adjective) either positive or zero | - |
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| nonnormative | (adjective) not based on a norm | - |
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| nonobjective | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative |
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| nonproductive | (adjective) not directly productive | - |
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| nonprognosticative | (adjective) not offering prognostications | - |
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| nonpsychoactive | (adjective) not affecting the mind or mental processes | - |
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| nonradioactive | (adjective) not radioactive | - |
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| nonreflective | (adjective) not capable of physical reflection | Synonyms: nonreflecting |
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| nonrepetitive | (adjective) marked by the absence of repetition | - |
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| nonrepresentative | (adjective) not standing for something else | Synonyms: unsymbolic |
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| nonrestrictive | (adjective) not limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| nonsensitive | (adjective) never having had security classification | Synonyms: unrestricted |
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| nonsubjective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: objective |
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| nonsuppurative | (adjective) not suppurative | - |
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| normative | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: prescriptive |
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| (adjective) relating to or dealing with norms | - |
| nutritive | (adjective) of or providing nourishment | Synonyms: alimental, alimentary, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious |
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| objective | (adjective) undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena | Synonyms: nonsubjective |
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| (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: accusative |
| (adjective) belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events | - |
| (adjective) emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation | - |
| (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 |
| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |
| obstructive | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, impeding |
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| olfactive | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactory |
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| operative | (adjective) being in force or having or exerting force | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine | Synonyms: surgical |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, running, working |
| (adjective) effective; producing a desired effect | - |
| (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 |
| (noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
| opinionative | (adjective) obstinate in your opinions | Synonyms: opinionated, self-opinionated |
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| oppositive | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: adversative |
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| optative | (adjective) relating to a mood of verbs in some languages | - |
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| (adjective) indicating an option or wish | - |
| (noun) a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs | Synonyms: optative mood |
| originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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| (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
| overactive | (adjective) more active than normal | Synonyms: hyperactive |
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| overprotective | (adjective) overly protective | - |
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| oversensitive | (adjective) unduly sensitive or thin-skinned | - |
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| oxidative | (adjective) taking place in the presence of oxygen | - |
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| palliative | (adjective) moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear | Synonyms: alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory |
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| (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
| partitive | (adjective) indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts | - |
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| (adjective) (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole | - |
| (adjective) serving to separate or divide into parts | Synonyms: separative |
| (noun) word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | - |
| pejorative | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dislogistic, dyslogistic |
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| penetrative | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrating |
| perceptive | (adjective) having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to perception | - |
| 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 |
| permeative | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, pervasive |
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| 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 |
| photoconductive | (adjective) of or relating to photoconductivity | - |
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| photosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to visible light | Synonyms: light-sensitive |
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| placative | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placating, placatory |
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| plaintive | (adjective) expressing sorrow | Synonyms: mournful |
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| positive | (adjective) characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. | - |
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| (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: confirming |
| (adjective) reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positivist, positivistic |
| (adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: plus |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, convinced |
| (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: electropositive, positively charged |
| (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, overconfident |
| (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: prescribed |
| (adjective) greater than zero | - |
| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, irrefutable |
| (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
| (noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
| postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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| postpositive | (adjective) (of a modifier) placed after another word | - |
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| precative | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precatory |
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| precognitive | (adjective) foreseeing the future | Synonyms: clairvoyant, second-sighted |
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| predicative | (adjective) of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence | - |
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| predictive | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: prognostic, prognosticative |
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| preemptive | (adjective) designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence | Synonyms: pre-emptive |
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| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| preoperative | (adjective) happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation | - |
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| preparative | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparatory, propaedeutic |
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| 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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| prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
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| preservative | (adjective) tending or having the power to preserve | - |
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| (noun) a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition | - |
| presumptive | (adjective) affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance | - |
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| (adjective) having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance | - |
| preventative | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventive |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
| (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 | (adjective) tending to prevent or hinder | Synonyms: preventative |
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| (adjective) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
| (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 | (adjective) used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies | - |
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| (adjective) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style | Synonyms: naive |
| (adjective) little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type | Synonyms: archaic |
| (adjective) belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness | Synonyms: crude, rude |
| (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
| (noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
| proactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently | - |
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| (adjective) (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens | - |
| probative | (adjective) tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | Synonyms: probatory |
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| procreative | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, reproductive |
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| productive | (adjective) producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly) | - |
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| (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: generative |
| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, fertile, rich |
| (adjective) yielding positive results | - |
| prognosticative | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognostic |
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| prohibitive | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitory |
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| promotive | (adjective) tending to further or encourage | - |
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| propagative | (adjective) characterized by propagation or relating to propagation | - |
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| propitiative | (adjective) intended to reconcile or appease | Synonyms: propitiatory |
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| proprioceptive | (adjective) of or relating to proprioception | - |
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| prospective | (adjective) of or concerned with or related to the future | - |
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| protective | (adjective) intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind | - |
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| (adjective) showing care | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful | - |
| provocative | (adjective) serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy | - |
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| (adjective) intentionally arousing sexual desire | - |
| psychoactive | (adjective) affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes | Synonyms: psychotropic |
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| punitive | (adjective) inflicting punishment | Synonyms: punitory |
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| purgative | (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: cathartic, evacuant |
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| (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, physic |
| putative | (adjective) purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds | - |
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| putrefactive | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefacient |
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