| ACQUISITIVE | • acquisitive adj. (Obsolete) Acquired. • acquisitive adj. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring. • acquisitive adj. Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information. |
| 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. |
| DEGLUTITIVE | • deglutitive adj. (Medicine) Relating to the action or process of swallowing. • DEGLUTITIVE adj. relating to deglutition, also DEGLUTITORY. |
| DIAPOSITIVE | • diapositive n. (Photography) slide (used with a projector for projecting images). • DIAPOSITIVE n. a transparent photographic positive; a slide. |
| DISPOSITIVE | • dispositive adj. Intending to or resulting in or capable of disposition (disposing of or settling a matter). • dispositive adj. (Obsolete) By natural disposition, having such an inclination. • dispositive adj. (Euro-English or non-native speakers’ English) Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties… |
| INQUISITIVE | • inquisitive adj. Eager to acquire knowledge. • inquisitive adj. Too curious; overly interested; nosy. • INQUISITIVE adj. given to examination or investigation. |
| INSENSITIVE | • insensitive adj. Expressing or feeling little or no concern, care, compassion, or consideration for the feelings, emotions… • insensitive adj. Not expressing normal physical feeling… • insensitive adj. Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic. |
| INTENSITIVE | • intensitive adj. Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive. • INTENSITIVE adj. giving force or emphasis. • INTENSITIVE n. a word giving emphasis, also INTENSATIVE. |
| INVESTITIVE | • investitive adj. (Law) Serving to invest. • INVESTITIVE adj. serving to invest. |
| NONADDITIVE | • nonadditive adj. Not additive. • NONADDITIVE adj. not having a numerical value equal to the sum of values for the component parts. |
| NONPUNITIVE | • nonpunitive adj. Not punitive. • NONPUNITIVE adj. not punitive. |
| PREMONITIVE | • premonitive adj. Premonitory. • PREMONITIVE adj. conveying a warning, also PREMONITORY. |
| PREPOSITIVE | • prepositive adj. Put before; prefixed. • prepositive n. A prepositive word. • PREPOSITIVE adj. placed before. |
| PRETERITIVE | • preteritive adj. (Grammar) Used only or chiefly in the preterite or past tenses. • PRETERITIVE adj. used only in the preterite. |
| PROGENITIVE | • progenitive adj. Being able to produce offspring, reproductive. • PROGENITIVE adj. capable of bearing offspring. |
| PROHIBITIVE | • prohibitive adj. Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow. • prohibitive adj. Costly to the extreme; beyond budget. • prohibitive adj. (Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner. |
| RECOGNITIVE | • recognitive adj. Connected with recognition. • RECOGNITIVE adj. relating to recognition. |
| SUPPOSITIVE | • suppositive adj. Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. • suppositive n. A word denoting or implying supposition. • SUPPOSITIVE adj. suppositional. |
| UNSENSITIVE | • unsensitive adj. Synonym of insensitive. • UNSENSITIVE adj. not sensitive, also INSENSITIVE. |