1K+ Words That Rhyme With DEFENSATIVE

• resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion

• a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

• a member of a Conservative Party

• having social or political views favoring conservatism

• avoiding excess

• unimaginatively conventional

• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

• relating to or based on or involving comparison

• estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

• the comparative form of an adjective or adverb

• requiring attention or action

• relating to verbs in the imperative mood

• a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

• some duty that is essential and urgent

• a verb in the imperative mood.

• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

• serving to instruct or enlighten or inform

• providing or conveying information

• relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature

• of or relating to or created by legislation

• 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

• consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

• given to or characterized by argument

• affirming or giving assent

• a reply of affirmation

• expecting the best

• expressing or manifesting praise or approval

• characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

• expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

• not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

• reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

• a reply of denial

• a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

• having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

• less than zero

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• having a negative charge

• involving disadvantage or harm

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

• a person related by blood or marriage

• an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

• properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'

• standing for something else

• a person who represents others

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• a member of the United States House of Representatives

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• serving to represent or typify

• being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives

• serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose

• the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx

• a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound

• a financial instrument whose value is based on another security

• (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word

• resulting from or employing derivation

• relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements

• a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

• (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly

• stimulating evacuation of feces

• a mild cathartic

• producing a sizeable profit

• being in force or having or exerting force

• relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine

• a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

• someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations

• effective; producing a desired effect

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy

• intentionally arousing sexual desire

• a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person

• tending to soothe or tranquilize

• not financially safe or secure

• not based on fact or investigation

• showing curiosity

• full of trivial conversation

• unwisely talking too much

• friendly and open and willing to talk

• under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon

• unsettled in mind or opinion

• of or relating to or responsible for administration

• intended as a commemoration

• an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person

• done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit

• 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

• an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it

• involving the joint activity of two or more

• willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement

• having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.

• a person responsible for the administration of a business

• persons who administer the law

• someone who manages a government agency or department

• (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

• skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage

• readiness to embark on bold new ventures

• the first of a series of actions

• serving to set in motion

• producing an effect

• a person devoted to the contemplative life

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence

• syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence

• either of two or more related or complementary variables

• mutually related

• expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation

• increasing by successive addition

• exploding almost instantaneously

• serving to bring to mind

• (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech

• consisting of or forming human or animal figures

• minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function

• capable of forming new cells and tissues

• forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning

• having the ability to produce or originate

• producing new life or offspring

• clarifying by use of examples

• serving to demonstrate

• marked by or given to imitation

• (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound

• not genuine; imitating something superior

• of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation

• serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb

• the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

• named; bearing the name of a specific person

• appointed by nomination

• relating to or dealing with norms

• pertaining to giving directives or rules

• expressing disapproval

• a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition

• tending or having the power to preserve

• tending to prevent or hinder

• remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease

• any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

• an agent or device intended to prevent conception

• preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease

• a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels

• strongly laxative

• expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement

• relating to the measurement of quantity

• (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables