| ABROGATIVE | • abrogative adj. Tending or designed to abrogate. • ABROGATIVE adj. relating to annulment. |
| ARROGATIVE | • arrogative adj. Making undue claims and pretensions; prone to arrogance. • ARROGATIVE adj. relating to arrogation, the act of arrogating. |
| DEROGATIVE | • derogative adj. Disparaging; tending or intending to be belittling. • derogative adj. Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates. • derogative n. (Rare) A derogatory word or word-form. |
| ERGATIVITY | • ergativity n. (Linguistics) The property of a grammar’s (or, by extension, a language’s) being ergative; the attribute… • ERGATIVITY n. the state of being ergative, a grammatical case found in certain languages. |
| INDAGATIVE | • indagative adj. (Obsolete) Searching; exploring; investigating. • INDAGATIVE adj. investigative, also INDAGATORY. |
| IRRIGATIVE | • irrigative adj. Relating to irrigation. • IRRIGATIVE adj. relating to irrigation. |
| MITIGATIVE | • mitigative adj. Serving to mitigate. • MITIGATIVE adj. tending to mitigate. • MITIGATIVE n. a mitigative drug. |
| NEGATIVELY | • negatively adv. In a negative manner; so as to be damaging or not positive. • negatively adv. (Responding to a question, proposal, vote, etc.) In the negative; with the answer “no.”. • NEGATIVE adv. not positive. |
| NEGATIVING | • negativing v. Present participle of negative. • NEGATIVE v. to disprove, make ineffective. |
| NEGATIVISM | • negativism n. A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude. • negativism n. A stubborn tendency to do the opposite of what one is asked. • NEGATIVISM n. a tendency to deny and criticise, without offering positive suggestions. |
| NEGATIVIST | • negativist n. One who exhibits negativism. • NEGATIVIST n. one who practises negativism, a tendency to deny and criticise, without offering positive suggestions. |
| NEGATIVITY | • negativity n. The characteristic of being pessimistic or contrarian. • negativity n. Negative sentiment. • negativity n. (Physics) The characteristic of having a negative charge. |
| OBLIGATIVE | • obligative adj. Synonym of obligatory. • OBLIGATIVE adj. causing obligation. |
| PURGATIVES | • purgatives n. Plural of purgative. • PURGATIVE n. a medicine that empties the intestines. |