1K+ Words That Rhyme With PREVENTIVE

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

• an attitude of defensiveness

• attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

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

• 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

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

• taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention

• 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

• having a defect

• markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior

• not working properly

• showing a lack of attention or care

• not showing due care or attention

• producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect

• able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively

• works well as a means or remedy

• exerting force or influence

• existing in fact; not theoretical; real

• ready for service

• high in price or charging high prices

• not causing anger or annoyance

• giving no offense

• good at remembering

• having the capacity to retain something

• having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water

• a negative motivational influence

• abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will

• intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind

• showing care

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

• not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized

• 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

• ready or willing to receive favorably

• open to arguments, ideas, or change

• of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system

• able to absorb liquid (not repellent)

• A word having this construction.

• Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).

• Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.

• The concave triangular sections of vaulting that provide the transition between a dome and the square base on which it is set and transfer the weight of the dome.

• deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention

• an agent or device intended to prevent conception

• capable of preventing conception or impregnation

• a police officer who investigates crimes

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

• 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

• not producing an intended effect

• lacking in power or forcefulness

• lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; inadequate

• 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

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• showing pensive sadness

• designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence

• producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)

• having the ability to produce or originate

• yielding positive results

• marked by great fruitfulness

• withdrawn from society; seeking solitude

• providing privacy or seclusion

• feeling or expressive of gratitude

• having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion

• a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity

• showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on

• relatively low in price or charging low prices

• favoring or promoting progress

• (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases

• a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

• favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)

• gradually advancing in extent

• (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position

• advancing in severity

• capable of physically reflecting light or sound

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• devoted to matters of the mind

• restrictive of action

• producing new life or offspring

• possessing the ability to repel

• offensive to the mind

• so extremely ugly as to be terrifying

• containing or using responses; alternating

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

• reacting to a stimulus

• tending to select; characterized by careful choice

• characterized by very careful or fastidious selection

• of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions

• not responding to some influence or stimulus

• aloof or indifferent

• not susceptible to suggestion or influence

• An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.

• A projective member of a category.

• A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.

• Projecting outward

• Of, relating to, or caused by a projection

• Describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection

• characterized by emotion

• expressing sorrow

• 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