Rhymes with alternative
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A a Two-syllable rhymes
- active — Someone who is active moves around a lot or does a lot of things.
- captive — A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
- motive — something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
Three-syllable rhymes
- assertive — Someone who is assertive states their needs and opinions clearly, so that people take notice.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- formative — giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing.
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- narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
- negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- normative — of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
- positive — admitting of no question: positive proof.
- relative — a person who is connected with another or others by blood or marriage.
- remedy — something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
- sensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- affirmative — An affirmative word or gesture indicates that you agree with what someone has said or that the answer to a question is 'yes'.
- alternatives — a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities, as of things, propositions, or courses of action, the selection of which precludes any other possibility: You have the alternative of riding or walking.
- conservative — A Conservative politician or voter is a member of or votes for the Conservative Party in Britain.
- imperative — imperative language
- informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- interpretive — serving to interpret; explanatory.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- preservative — something that preserves or tends to preserve.
- reality — the state or quality of being real.
- superlative — of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- alternatively — You use alternatively to introduce a suggestion or to mention something different to what has just been stated.
- possibility — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- neoconservative — moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.
- ultraconservative — extremely conservative, especially in politics.