| ABUSIVE | • abusive adj. Prone to treat someone badly by coarse, insulting words or other maltreatment; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. • abusive adj. (Obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent. • abusive adj. (Archaic) Tending to misuse; practising or containing abuse. |
| AMUSIVE | • amusive adj. (Obsolete) Illusive, deceitful. • amusive adj. (Now rare) Giving entertainment or interest; recreative, diverting, engaging. • amusive adj. (Now rare) Amusing, humorous. |
| CORSIVE | • corsive adj. (Obsolete) Corrosive. • corsive n. (Medicine, obsolete) A corrosive. • corsive n. (Obsolete) Something damaging or annoying; an inconvenience, an evil. |
| CURSIVE | • cursive adj. Running; flowing. • cursive adj. (Of writing) Having successive letters joined together. • cursive adj. (Grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line… |
| ELUSIVE | • elusive adj. Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance. • elusive adj. Difficult to make precise. • elusive adj. Rarely seen. |
| EROSIVE | • erosive adj. Of or pertaining to erosion. • erosive adj. Causing or tending to cause erosion. • EROSIVE adj. causing erosion. |
| ESSIVES | • essives n. Plural of essive. • ESSIVE n. a grammatical case denoting a state of being. |
| EVASIVE | • evasive adj. Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself. • evasive adj. Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action. • EVASIVE adj. tending to evade. |
| FISSIVE | • fissive adj. Of or pertaining to fission. • FISSIVE adj. pertaining to nuclear fission. |
| JUSSIVE | • jussive n. (Grammar, uncountable and countable) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command… • jussive n. (Arabic grammar) A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and… • jussive adj. (Grammar) Of or in the jussive mood. |
| MASSIVE | • massive adj. Very large in size or extent. • massive adj. Very large or bulky and heavy and solid. • massive adj. (Informal) To a very great extent; total, utter. |
| MISSIVE | • missive n. (Formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo. • missive n. (In the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it. • missive n. (Obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger. |
| PASSIVE | • passive adj. Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction. • passive adj. Taking no action. • passive adj. (Grammar) Being in the passive voice. |
| PENSIVE | • pensive adj. Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking. • pensive adj. Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness. • PENSIVE adj. engaged in deep thought. |
| PLOSIVE | • plosive n. (Phonetics) Sound produced from opening a previously closed oral passage. • plosive adj. (Phonetics) Produced from opening a previously closed oral passage. • PLOSIVE n. an explosive (sound), as p. |
| SUASIVE | • suasive adj. (Archaic) Having power to persuade; persuasive. • SUASIVE adj. persuasive. |
| TENSIVE | • tensive adj. Of or pertaining to tension. • TENSIVE adj. causing tensity. |
| TORSIVE | • torsive adj. Relating to torsion; twisting. • TORSIVE adj. twisted. |
| TUSSIVE | • tussive adj. (Medicine) Related to, caused by, or accompanied by a cough. • TUSSIVE adj. relating to a cough, also TUSSAL. |