| COMPETITIVE | • competitive adj. Of or pertaining to competition. • competitive adj. (Of someone’s character) Inclined to compete. • competitive adj. (Economics) Capable of competing successfully. |
| COMPOSITIVE | • compositive adj. Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. • COMPOSITIVE adj. relating to a composite. |
| IMPASSIVITY | • impassivity n. The state of being impassive. • IMPASSIVITY n. the quality of being impassive. |
| IMPERATIVAL | • imperatival adj. (Grammar) Of or pertaining to the imperative mood. • IMPERATIVAL adj. relating to the imperative. |
| IMPERATIVES | • imperatives n. Plural of imperative. • IMPERATIVE n. a verb in the imperative mood. |
| IMPETRATIVE | • impetrative adj. (Obsolete) Of the nature of impetration; getting, or tending to get, by entreaty. • IMPETRATIVE adj. relating to impetration, also IMPETRATORY. |
| IMPLICATIVE | • implicative adj. Tending to implicate or to imply; pertaining to implication. • IMPLICATIVE adj. tending to implicate. |
| IMPROVIDENT | • improvident adj. Failing to provide for the future; reckless. • improvident adj. Incautious; prone to rashness. • IMPROVIDENT adj. lacking foresight, thoughtless, also UNPROVIDENT. |
| IMPROVISATE | • improvisate v. To improvise; to extemporize. • improvisate adj. Unpremeditated; impromptu. • IMPROVISATE v. (obsolete) to improvise. |
| IMPULSIVITY | • impulsivity n. The quality of being impulsive, impulsiveness; inclination to act on impulse rather than thought. • IMPULSIVITY n. the state of being impulsive. |
| PARVANIMITY | • parvanimity n. (Now rare) The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness. • PARVANIMITY n. pettiness, meanness. |
| POSITIVISMS | • positivisms n. Plural of positivism. • POSITIVISM n. the doctrine that that which is not observable is not knowable. |
| PREMONITIVE | • premonitive adj. Premonitory. • PREMONITIVE adj. conveying a warning, also PREMONITORY. |
| PRIMITIVELY | • primitively adv. In a primitive manner. • PRIMITIVE adv. belonging to earliest times or the earlier stages of development. |
| PRIMITIVISM | • primitivism n. The state or quality of being primitive. • primitivism n. The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated… • primitivism n. Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms. |
| PRIMITIVIST | • primitivist adj. Exhibiting or practicing primitivism, the advocacy of primitive over refined forms. • primitivist n. A proponent of primitivism. • PRIMITIVIST n. one who practises primitivism, the doctrine that a simple and natural life is morally best. |
| PRIMITIVITY | • primitivity n. The state of being primitive; primitiveness. • PRIMITIVITY n. the state of being primitive. |
| PROVITAMINS | • provitamins n. Plural of provitamin. • PROVITAMIN n. a pre-vitamin. |
| SEMIPRIVATE | • semiprivate adj. More private than usual accommodations, but not fully private; used especially of a hospital room that… • SEMIPRIVATE adj. partly private. |