| COMPOSITIVE | • compositive adj. Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded. • COMPOSITIVE adj. relating to a composite. |
| CONSUMPTIVE | • consumptive adj. Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful. • consumptive adj. Of, or relating to consumption. • consumptive adj. (Pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis. |
| IMPASSIVITY | • impassivity n. The state of being impassive. • IMPASSIVITY n. the quality of being impassive. |
| IMPERATIVES | • imperatives n. Plural of imperative. • IMPERATIVE n. a verb in the imperative mood. |
| 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. |
| PELVIMETERS | • pelvimeters n. Plural of pelvimeter. • PELVIMETER n. an instrument for measuring the pelvis. |
| POSITIVISMS | • positivisms n. Plural of positivism. • POSITIVISM n. the doctrine that that which is not observable is not knowable. |
| PRESUMPTIVE | • presumptive adj. Based on presumption, probability, conjecture, hypothesis or belief. • presumptive adj. Making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps should not. • PRESUMPTIVE adj. based on probability or presumption. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| SUBSUMPTIVE | • subsumptive adj. Relating to, or containing, a subsumption. • SUBSUMPTIVE adj. tending to subsume. |
| VERKRAMPTES | • verkramptes n. Plural of verkrampte. • VERKRAMPTE n. (South African) one who is narrow-minded and illiberal esp. towards black and coloured people. |