1K+ Words That Rhyme With PLAINTIVE

• tending to become more severe or wider in scope

• disposed to take action or effectuate change

• characterized by energetic activity

• exerting influence or producing a change or effect

• full of activity or engaged in continuous activity

• (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions

• expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting

• (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt

• engaged in full-time work

• chemical agent capable of activity

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb

• a person who is a participating member of an organization

• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

• taking part in an activity

• in operation

• intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

• an attitude of defensiveness

• attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

• 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

• a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music

• a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration

• causing or able to cause motion

• impelling to action

• characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin

• belonging to one by birth

• characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning

• an indigenous person who was born in a particular place

• a person born in a particular place or country

• indigenous plants and animals

• as found in nature in the elemental form

• for the purpose of attack rather than defense

• causing anger or annoyance

• morally offensive

• unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses

• the action of attacking an enemy

• violating or tending to violate or offend against

• causing or able to cause nausea

• someone who flees from an uncongenial situation

• someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

• lasting for a markedly brief time

• characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

• indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

• of or relating to positivism

• reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion

• the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

• a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

• persuaded of; very sure

• involving advantage or good

• formally laid down or imposed

• impossible to deny or disprove

• greater than zero

• having a positive charge

• marked by excessive confidence

• (often followed by `to') giving care or attention

• taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention

• a positive motivational influence

• an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

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

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• showing pensive sadness

• 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

• quick to understand

• mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc

• in fear or dread of possible evil or harm

• including all or everything

• an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge

• broad in scope

• of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor

• large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity

• broad in scope or content

• offering fun and gaiety

• relatively low in price or charging low prices

• tending to give force or emphasis

• of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor

• a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies

• characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form

• containing or using responses; alternating

• readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion

• reacting to a stimulus

• not responding to some influence or stimulus

• aloof or indifferent

• not susceptible to suggestion or influence

• relating to or based on or involving comparison

• estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

• the comparative form of an adjective or adverb

• 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

• a police officer who investigates crimes

• an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

• 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

• showing a lack of attention or care

• not showing due care or attention

• defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established

• any word or group of words functioning as a noun

• of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something

• being on topic and prompting thought

• forming a whole or aggregate

• members of a cooperative enterprise

• done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

• set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government

• able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion

• of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope

• marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur

• friendly and open and willing to talk

• having abnormally high blood pressure

• a person who has abnormally high blood pressure

• not causing anger or annoyance

• giving no offense

• affirming or giving assent

• a reply of affirmation

• expecting the best

• expressing or manifesting praise or approval

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• serving or used in place of another

• necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities

• pertaining to unconventional choices

• pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm

• having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull

• having power to arouse interest

• involving competition or competitiveness

• subscribing to capitalistic competition

• showing a fighting disposition

• 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

• having the ability or power to create

• promoting construction or creation

• causing destruction or much damage

• serving to bring to mind

• 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

• readiness to embark on bold new ventures

• the first of a series of actions

• serving to set in motion

• imposing in size or bulk or solidity

• being the same substance throughout

• imposing in scale or scope or degree or power

• consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter

• 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

• undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena

• serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

• the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)

• the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed

• emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation

• belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events

• small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil

• evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits

• hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork

• one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish

• a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation

• of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

• a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

• the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

• intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind

• showing care

• (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful

• 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'