8-letter words that end in tive
- ablative — (in certain inflected languages such as Latin) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb
- abortive — An abortive attempt or action is unsuccessful.
- adaptive — Adaptive means having the ability or tendency to adapt to different situations.
- additive — An additive is a substance which is added in small amounts to foods or other things in order to improve them or to make them last longer.
- adoptive — Someone's adoptive family is the family that adopted them.
- agentive — (in some inflected languages) denoting a case of nouns, etc, indicating the agent described by the verb
- allative — the grammatical case, or a word used in the case, that in certain languages denotes movement towards something
- auditive — a person who learns primarily by listening
- caritive — (in certain inflected languages, especially of the Caucasian group) abessive.
- coactive — acting together.
- conative — denoting an aspect of verbs in some languages used to indicate the effort of the agent in performing the activity described by the verb
- cooptive — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
- curative — Something that has curative properties can cure people's illnesses.
- delative — noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place down from which.
- deletive — intended to destroy or remove
- denotive — used or serving to denote; denotative.
- dilative — serving or tending to dilate.
- dilutive — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
- donative — a gift or donation.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- eductive — educing; serving to educe.
- ejective — Denoting a type of consonant in some languages, e.g., Hausa, produced by sudden release of pressure from the glottis.
- elective — Related to or working by means of election.
- enactive — Having power to enact or establish as a law.
- equative — (grammar) Of, pertaining to, or being an equative.
- erective — Making erect or upright; raising.
- ergative — Relating to or denoting a case of nouns (in some languages, e.g., Basque and Eskimo) that identifies the subject of a transitive verb and is different from the case that identifies the subject of an intransitive verb.
- eruptive — Of, relating to, or formed by volcanic activity.
- exertive — Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
- fixative — serving to fix; making fixed or permanent.
- frictive — Of, relating to, or caused by friction.
- fructive — fruitful
- fruitive — able to enjoy or to produce enjoyment.
- fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
- genetive — Alternative spelling of genitive.
- genitive — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
- ideative — to form an idea, thought, or image of.
- illative — of, relating to, or expressing illation; inferential: an illative word such as “therefore.”.
- inactive — not active: an inactive volcano.
- innative — native, or existing in a person or animal from birth
- ipsative — (psychology) denoting a measure that forces an individual to choose among multiple desirable options.
- laxative — a medicine or agent for relieving constipation.
- lenitive — softening, soothing, or mitigating, as medicines or applications.
- locative — (in certain inflected languages) noting a case whose distinctive function is to indicate place in or at which, as Latin domī “at home.”.
- monitive — admonishing or advisory
- mutative — to change; alter.
- negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- optative — designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen “may we go, we wish we might go.”.
- positive — admitting of no question: positive proof.
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