Word using the suffix ive

This morpheme tends to mean «tending to?«. Some of the most representative words that include it are: active, sensitive, creative. It’s typically applied to adjectives.

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  effective

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  positive

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  active

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  conservative

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  expensive

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  alternative

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  attractive

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  relative

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  negative

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  massive

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  extensive

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  alive

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  competitive

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  sensitive

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  administrative

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  comprehensive

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  live

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  impressive

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  creative

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  collective

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  distinctive

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  exclusive

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  aggressive

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  legislative

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  successive

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  intensive

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  progressive

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  excessive

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  objective

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  primitive

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  representative

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  comparative

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  productive

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  passive

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  prospective

• 
  selective

• 
  protective

• 
  defensive

• 
  respective

• 
  cognitive

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  decisive

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  subjective

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  imaginative

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  innovative

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  constructive

• 
  co-operative

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  substantive

• 
  offensive

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  decorative

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  quantitative

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  restrictive

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  interactive

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  irrespective

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  radioactive

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  supportive

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  destructive

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  naive

• 
  ulcerative

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  consultative

• 
  defective

• 
  consecutive

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  explosive

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  cumulative

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  reproductive

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  descriptive

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  speculative

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  ineffective

• 
  olive

• 
  responsive

• 
  elusive

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  narrative

• 
  authoritative

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  definitive

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  qualitative

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  tentative

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  cooperative

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  addictive

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  informative

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  persuasive

• 
  expressive

• 
  lucrative

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  collaborative

• 
  instinctive

• 
  retrospective

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  communicative

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  indicative

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  repetitive

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  intuitive

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  conclusive

• 
  oppressive

• 
  reactive

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  preventive

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  festive

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  disruptive

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  pervasive

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  formative

• 
  cost-effective

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  provocative

• 
  receptive

• 
  operative

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  associative

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  inexpensive

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  exhaustive

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  unattractive

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  imperative

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  inclusive

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  subversive

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  reflective

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  assertive

• 
  inactive

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  emotive

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  insensitive

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  normative

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  adaptive

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  suggestive

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  dismissive

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  obsessive

• 
  instructive

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  investigative

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  conducive

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  digestive

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  captive

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  punitive

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  abusive

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  apprehensive

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  repressive

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  discursive

• 
  perceptive

• 
  elective

• 
  cohesive

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  abortive

• 
  executive

• 
  putative

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  intrusive

• 
  attentive

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  compulsive

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  secretive

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  seductive

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  abrasive

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  predictive

• 
  inventive

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  inconclusive

• 
  unproductive

• 
  deceptive

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  permissive

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  contemplative

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  affective

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  divisive

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  impulsive

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  contraceptive

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  evocative

• 
  possessive

• 
  illustrative

• 
  commemorative

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  expansive

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  counter-productive

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  proactive

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  coercive

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  interpretative

• 
  appreciative

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  inquisitive

• 
  prescriptive

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  corrective

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  obstructive

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  evasive

• 
  pre-emptive

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  manipulative

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  invasive

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  preventative

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  impassive

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  furtive

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  diminutive

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  automotive

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  affirmative

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  additive

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  incisive

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  unobtrusive

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  argumentative

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  submissive

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  prohibitive

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  regressive

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  corrosive

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  generative

• 
  deductive

• 
  evaluative

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  vindictive

• 
  adoptive

• 
  constitutive

• 
  proliferative

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  repulsive

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  adhesive

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  figurative

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  derivative

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  infective

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  unimaginative

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  labour-intensive

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  combative

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  redistributive

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  restorative

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  participative

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  unrepresentative

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  inductive

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  talkative

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  unresponsive

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  postoperative

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  distributive

• 
  post-operative

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  exploitative

• 
  indecisive

• 
  plaintive

• 
  counterproductive

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  interpretive

• 
  attributive

• 
  derisive

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  hyperactive

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  introspective

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  predicative

• 
  integrative

• 
  curative

• 
  recessive

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  pejorative

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  obtrusive

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  purposive

• 
  conductive

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  demonstrative

• 
  meditative

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  hypersensitive

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  uncompetitive

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  imitative

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  causative

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  hypertensive

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  cursive

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  transgressive

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  acquisitive

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  uncooperative

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  superlative

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  non-invasive

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  educative

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  connective

• 
  regenerative

• 
  preoperative

• 
  palliative

• 
  self-destructive

• 
  votive

• 
  restive

• 
  refractive

• 
  iterative

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  pensive

• 
  collusive

• 
  vegetative

• 
  rehabilitative

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  presumptive

• 
  degenerative

• 
  unimpressive

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  transitive

• 
  allocative

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  inoffensive

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  convulsive

• 
  reductive

• 
  summative

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  retributive

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  non-exclusive

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  oxidative

• 
  reclusive

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  effusive

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  penetrative

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  immunoreactive

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  deliberative

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  declarative

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  non-native

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  percussive

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  recursive

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  seropositive

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  redemptive

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  contrastive

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  capital-intensive

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  non-selective

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  extractive

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  inoperative

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  immunosuppressive

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  aversive

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  antihypertensive

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  non-negative

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  erosive

• 
  remunerative

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  congestive

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  allusive

• 
  uninformative

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  interrogative

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  light-sensitive

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  radiative

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  all-inclusive

• 
  laxative

• 
  four-wheel-drive

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  deconstructive

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  non-competitive

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  adjudicative

• 
  determinative

• 
  resistive

• 
  maladaptive

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  ascriptive

• 
  enumerative

• 
  inattentive

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  intransitive

• 
  anticompetitive

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  projective

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  preservative

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  corroborative

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  unco-operative

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  retroactive

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  dispositive

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  vasoactive

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  hypotensive

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  absorptive

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  uncommunicative

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  correlative

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  eruptive

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  capacitive

• 
  self-adhesive

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  convective

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  overactive

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  propulsive

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  illuminative

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  disjunctive

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  oversensitive

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  retentive

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  concessive

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  reformative

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  normotensive

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  nociceptive

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  multiplicative

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  sedative

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  manic-depressive

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  consumptive

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  alliterative

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  subjunctive

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  injunctive

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  preparative

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  over-sensitive

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  vituperative

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  co-extensive

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  undemonstrative

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  exfoliative

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  nine-to-five

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  nutritive

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  uncreative

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  discriminative

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  dissipative

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  self-assertive

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  regulative

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  seronegative

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  appetitive

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  retrogressive

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  compressive

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  recuperative

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  diffusive

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  unsupportive

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  unreflective

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  overprotective

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  transformative

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  performative

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  colligative

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  suppressive

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  resultative

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  gram-negative

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  proprioceptive

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  fictive

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  adversative

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  dispersive

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  locative

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  federative

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  accumulative

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  perfective

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  calculative

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  context-sensitive

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  unreceptive

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  adjunctive

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  facilitative

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  unappreciative

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  coextensive

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  conjunctive

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  intraoperative

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  counterintuitive

• 
  vocative

• 
  ostensive

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  probative

• 
  replicative

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  counter-intuitive

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  delusive

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  commutative

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  unreactive

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  exploitive

• 
  preemptive

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  psychoactive

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  photosensitive

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  purgative

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  non-progressive

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  submassive

• 
  intersubjective

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  quantitive

• 
  unremunerative

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  perioperative

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  ruminative

• 
  overinclusive

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  subtractive

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  rebarbative

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  deglutitive

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  affiliative

• 
  fricative

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  electroconvulsive

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  unassertive

• 
  infiltrative

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  recreative

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  dissociative

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  supermassive

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  extrusive

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  case-sensitive

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  explorative

• 
  live-and-let-live

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  plosive

• 
  incorporative

• 
  vasoconstrictive

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  sportive

• 
  autoregressive

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  ameliorative

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  replacive

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  unprogressive

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  conceptive

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  non-quantitative

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  reconstructive

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  affinitive

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  rotative

• 
  occlusive

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  procreative

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  articulative

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  stative

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  conative

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  disintegrative

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  inexpressive

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  nominative

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  interventive

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  costive

• 
  cytoprotective

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  unpersuasive

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  connotative

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  privative

• 
  reparative

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  obsessive-compulsive

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  gram-positive

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  evaporative

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  unexpressive

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  unaggressive

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  restitutive

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  exudative

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  accommodative

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  unselective

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  aggregative

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  stimulative

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  tractive

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  neurodegenerative

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  schizoaffective

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  abductive

• 
  capacitative

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  distortive

• 
  reintegrative

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  promotive

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  separative

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  nonexecutive

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  constrictive

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  contributive

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  nondestructive

• 
  resuscitative

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  electromotive

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  assortative

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  unprovocative

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  inversive

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  assumptive

• 
  degradative

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  genitive

• 
  concentrative

• 
  philoprogenitive

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  adsorptive

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  over-reactive

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  equative

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  semiquantitative

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  denotative

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  misrepresentative

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  denotive

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  digressive

• 
  preattentive

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  dissuasive

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  approximative

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  substitutive

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  nonreactive

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  gastroprotective

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  elaborative

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  uninventive

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  ultraconservative

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  accusative

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  ultrasensitive

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  photorefractive

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  factive

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  irruptive

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  surface-active

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  fixative

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  alloreactive

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  unperceptive

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  ratiocinative

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  alterative

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  inhibitive

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  cardioselective

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  disputative

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  assimilative

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  proscriptive

• 
  continuative

• 
  non-administrative

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  connotive

• 
  unconstructive

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  non-reflexive

• 
  adjustive

• 
  numerative

• 
  agentive

• 
  formulative

• 
  segregative

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  nonproductive

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  confirmative

• 
  individuative

• 
  cryoprotective

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  copulative

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  transmissive

• 
  underactive

• 
  abstractive

• 
  evolutive

• 
  recollective

• 
  non-descriptive

• 
  imperceptive

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  cold-sensitive

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  corporative

• 
  noncompetitive

• 
  implosive

• 
  subadditive

• 
  electronegative

• 
  suspensive

• 
  crossreactive

• 
  coordinative

• 
  nuncupative

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  suppletive

• 
  appositive

• 
  ablative

• 
  variative

• 
  carminative

• 
  non-interactive

• 
  politico-administrative

• 
  autoreactive

• 
  situative

• 
  erective

• 
  illusive

• 
  bioactive

• 
  primative

• 
  polyphiloprogenitive

• 
  superconductive

• 
  inchoative

• 
  ampliative

• 
  fugitive

• 
  degressive

• 
  noninteractive

• 
  singulative

• 
  nonobjective

• 
  discoursive

• 
  ergative

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  debilitative

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  electropositive

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  labor-intensive

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  partitive

• 
  contaminative

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  suppurative

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  prefigurative

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  dative

• 
  unobjective

• 
  hyperproliferative

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  expulsive

• 
  immersive

• 
  expletive

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  antioxidative

• 
  irresponsive

• 
  bronchoconstrictive

• 
  uncomprehensive

• 
  postreplicative

• 
  enactive

• 
  inconsecutive

• 
  metacognitive

• 
  coactive

• 
  ipsative

• 
  unlucrative

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  hyperreactive

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  insertive

• 
  transpressive

• 
  ultra-progressive

• 
  acculturative

• 
  implicative

• 
  mediative

• 
  unrestrictive

• 
  originative

• 
  stipulative

• 
  radiosensitive

• 
  hypercompetitive

• 
  nonprogressive

• 
  neuroprotective

• 
  unpredictive

• 
  unintrusive

• 
  migrative

• 
  monotransitive

• 
  fermentative

• 
  unargumentative

• 
  pollutive

• 
  counteractive

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  conversative

• 
  obliterative

• 
  nonaggressive

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  frequentative

• 
  unseductive

• 
  insulative

• 
  combustive

• 
  conflictive

• 
  ditransitive

• 
  inexhaustive

• 
  overattentive

• 
  archconservative

• 
  emptive

• 
  appointive

• 
  imperfective

• 
  accelerative

• 
  reiterative

• 
  regioselective

• 
  irritative

• 
  photoreceptive

• 
  thermosensitive

• 
  exclamative

• 
  mutative

• 
  magnetoresistive

• 
  caressive

• 
  extrapolative

• 
  precognitive

• 
  contractive

• 
  impactive

• 
  nonpermissive

• 
  anticonvulsive

• 
  anticooperative

• 
  circumspective

• 
  rejective

• 
  corruptive

• 
  unemotive

• 
  deflective

• 
  optative

• 
  confederative

• 
  registrative

• 
  consultive

• 
  proceptive

• 
  seclusive

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  immunonegative

• 
  unevasive

• 
  untalkative

• 
  ascensive

• 
  retrodictive

• 
  enantioselective

• 
  piaculative

• 
  precompetitive

• 
  unreclusive

• 
  nonassociative

• 
  commiserative

• 
  stereoselective

• 
  maladjustive

• 
  incommunicative

• 
  redressive

• 
  detractive

• 
  acceptive

• 
  donative

• 
  irrelative

• 
  decompressive

• 
  ejective

• 
  portative

• 
  remonstrative

• 
  semipreparative

• 
  facultative

• 
  emulative

• 
  anticipative

• 
  unpermissive

• 
  desquamative

• 
  unconservative

• 
  nonadaptive

• 
  semiconductive

• 
  emulsive

• 
  sorptive

• 
  compositive

• 
  sexploitative

• 
  jussive

• 
  constative

• 
  profusive

• 
  propagative

• 
  oppilative

• 
  chemopreventative

• 
  illative

• 
  uninstructive

• 
  retractive

• 
  piezoresistive

• 
  assistive

• 
  non-relative

• 
  protrusive

• 
  unpossessive

• 
  reversive

• 
  nonconservative

• 
  amative

• 
  reinterpretative

• 
  hypotheticodeductive

• 
  unauthoritative

• 
  chemosensitive

• 
  elucidative

• 
  unfestive

• 
  distractive

• 
  defunctive

• 
  exhortative

• 
  accretive

• 
  radioprotective

• 
  transportive

• 
  affinitative

• 
  manumotive

• 
  interoperative

• 
  erythrodegenerative

• 
  estimative

• 
  semi-positive

• 
  innative

• 
  insubmissive

• 
  proconvulsive

• 
  noninvestigative

• 
  verdictive

• 
  adorative

• 
  retropulsive

• 
  overaggressive

• 
  perseverative

• 
  precreative

• 
  unpropulsive

• 
  limitative

• 
  attenuative

• 
  postdive

• 
  unexplosive

• 
  crescive

• 
  divertive

• 
  aspersive

• 
  augmentative

• 
  consignificative

• 
  contortive

• 
  unhesitative

• 
  noncumulative

• 
  defusive

• 
  superdiffusive

• 
  refrigerative

• 
  dominative

• 
  undecorative

• 
  nonlimitative

• 
  desiccative

• 
  deteriorative

• 
  rememorative

• 
  eductive

• 
  anticollective

• 
  contraversive

• 
  irresultative

• 
  counterhypertensive

• 
  underproductive

• 
  nondescriptive

• 
  reinventive

• 
  stereoelective

• 
  aperitive

• 
  seminaive

• 
  collisive

• 
  mordicative

• 
  intellective

• 
  nonreplicative

• 
  laudative

• 
  retroreflective

• 
  ententive

• 
  cislocative

• 
  seminaïve

• 
  nonconstructive

• 
  noninclusive

• 
  resorptive

• 
  heterofermentative

• 
  chondroconductive

• 
  inflective

• 
  conjugative

• 
  introductive

• 
  vetitive

• 
  quasireflexive

• 
  perlative

• 
  minorative

• 
  mirative

• 
  irretentive

• 
  precipitative

• 
  neurogenerative

• 
  primogenitive

• 
  delimitative

• 
  divestive

• 
  edulcorative

• 
  animative

• 
  extinctive

• 
  semisecretive

• 
  insubstantive

• 
  unfigurative

• 
  nonenantioselective

• 
  radioresponsive

• 
  gravitative

• 
  acclamative

• 
  acervative

• 
  reprobative

• 
  duplicative

• 
  mechanoreceptive

• 
  transductive

• 
  postreproductive

• 
  predive

• 
  unsportive

• 
  noncurative

• 
  nonexpansive

• 
  quadrative

• 
  coassociative

• 
  coinductive

• 
  unapprehensive

• 
  cunctative

• 
  cytoablative

• 
  procrastinative

• 
  germinative

• 
  rarefactive

• 
  disfigurative

• 
  advisive

• 
  entitative

• 
  immunoevasive

• 
  concertative

• 
  underdispersive

• 
  somniative

• 
  biliodigestive

• 
  desiderative

• 
  mechanoresponsive

• 
  transpositive

• 
  underisive

• 
  judicative

• 
  untransgressive

• 
  dechticaetiative

• 
  venerative

• 
  nonmultiplicative

• 
  dormative

• 
  intercommunicative

• 
  mesangioproliferative

• 
  hypercoagulative

• 
  ultrapercussive

• 
  polydispersive

• 
  underaccommodative

• 
  temulentive

• 
  memorative

• 
  antiferrodistortive

• 
  appulsive

• 
  explicative

• 
  incarnative

• 
  unaversive

• 
  multinarrative

• 
  underivative

• 
  psychomanipulative

• 
  nonoperative

• 
  tail recursive

• 
  isoselective

• 
  antispeculative

• 
  traditive

• 
  indictive

• 
  constraintive

• 
  fibroconnective

• 
  introflexive

• 
  unobsessive

• 
  nondesignative

• 
  nonexpensive

• 
  dehydrative

• 
  nonplosive

• 
  quietive

• 
  succussive

• 
  discretive

• 
  displacive

• 
  mechanosensitive

• 
  hypercognitive

• 
  coactive

• 
  extroitive

• 
  initiative

• 
  polyreactive

• 
  cytoadhesive

• 
  nonconsumptive

• 
  abirritative

• 
  habilitative

• 
  equieffective

• 
  communitive

• 
  autooxidative

• 
  undivisive

• 
  unprotective

• 
  nonaffective

• 
  nonrepresentative

• 
  oppositive

• 
  excisive

• 
  seminarrative

• 
  trijective

• 
  collocative

• 
  induplicative

• 
  inflexive

• 
  autogressive

• 
  noncursive

• 
  disrespective

• 
  aconative

• 
  coöperative

• 
  prognosticative

• 
  cisnormative

• 
  attestative

• 
  ferrodistortive

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  introgressive

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  multicausative

• 
  necessitative

• 
  prenunciative

• 
  nonindicative

• 
  sternutative

• 
  glutinative

• 
  nonulcerative

• 
  subjugative

• 
  limitive

• 
  bronchoprotective

• 
  hypocoagulative

• 
  metacommunicative

• 
  tolerative

• 
  immunofluoropositive

• 
  counterinformative

• 
  nanoselective

• 
  potestative

• 
  precursive

• 
  unobstructive

• 
  sortitive

• 
  propositive

• 
  nonrepressive

• 
  dormitive

• 
  activo-passive

• 
  hypocoercive

• 
  exquisitive

• 
  immunofluororeactive

• 
  inessive

• 
  unappropriative

• 
  justificative

• 
  unobstrusive

• 
  spoliative

• 
  noncommunicative

• 
  pseudocontractive

• 
  depurative

• 
  overreactive

• 
  introitive

• 
  delineative

• 
  electrocapacitive

• 
  electrostrictive

• 
  appeasive

• 
  inflictive

• 
  invective

• 
  protonmotive

• 
  stagnative

• 
  supercapacitive

• 
  carbonylative

• 
  parturitive

• 
  antidigestive

• 
  semi-transitive

• 
  indurative

• 
  attestive

• 
  osmoprotective

• 
  chondroinductive

• 
  transactive

• 
  expatiative

• 
  simulative

• 
  nonappetitive

• 
  vacillative

• 
  nonreproductive

• 
  surpassive

• 
  antiprogressive

• 
  completive

• 
  supereffective

• 
  applicative

• 
  semidistributive

• 
  arrogative

• 
  inappreciative

• 
  multidrive

• 
  noncontaminative

• 
  litigative

• 
  extirpative

• 
  unabrasive

• 
  irradiative

• 
  noncommutative

• 
  osteoinductive

• 
  hyperventilative

• 
  hypoconnective

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  eradicative

• 
  undefective

• 
  decoctive

• 
  nonoppressive

• 
  occultive

• 
  maturative

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