| ACCEPTIVE | • acceptive adj. Fit for acceptance. • acceptive adj. (Obsolete) Ready to accept. • acceptive adj. Receptive. |
| CAPTIVATE | • captivate v. To attract and hold (someone’s) interest and attention; to charm. • captivate v. (Obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. • CAPTIVATE v. to charm, fascinate. |
| CAPTIVING | • captiving v. Present participle of captive. • CAPTIVE v. to make a prisoner. |
| CAPTIVITY | • captivity n. The state of being captive. • captivity n. (Obsolete) A group of people/beings captive. • captivity n. The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved. |
| DECEPTIVE | • deceptive adj. Likely or attempting to deceive. • DECEPTIVE adj. tending to deceive, also DECEPTORY. |
| DEPICTIVE | • depictive adj. Of or pertaining to depiction. • depictive n. (Grammar) A grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun in relation to the action of a verb. • DEPICTIVE adj. relating to depiction. |
| EXCEPTIVE | • exceptive adj. Exceptional, having an exception. • EXCEPTIVE adj. including, making or being an exception. |
| IMPACTIVE | • impactive adj. Of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact. • IMPACTIVE adj. relating to impact. |
| INCEPTIVE | • inceptive adj. Beginning; of or relating to inception. • inceptive adj. (Grammar) Aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning. • inceptive n. (Grammar) An inceptive construction. |
| OVERPITCH | • overpitch v. (Transitive) To give too high a pitch to. • overpitch v. (Transitive, cricket) To bowl (the ball) so that it bounces closer to the batsman than a good length… • OVERPITCH v. in cricket, to bowl a ball so that its trajectory brings it too close to the stumps. |
| PLACATIVE | • placative adj. (Chiefly US) That placates; pacifying. • PLACATIVE adj. tending to placate, also PLACATORY. |
| PRECATIVE | • precative adj. Resembling or pertaining to an entreaty. • precative n. (Grammar) Mode expressing a wish, a prayer. • PRECATIVE adj. supplicating; expressing entreaty. |
| PROACTIVE | • proactive adj. Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty. • PROACTIVE adj. tending to make changes in anticipation of change. |
| RECEPTIVE | • receptive adj. Capable of receiving something. • receptive adj. Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas. • receptive adj. (Botany) Of a female flower or gynoecium: ready for reproduction; fertile. |
| VITASCOPE | • vitascope n. (Historical) An early machine for exhibiting animated pictures. • VITASCOPE n. a moving picture projector. |