Abstract Nouns Ending in E and Containing IV

This list gathers 253 English abstract nouns ending in E and containing IV, such as Give, Drive, Positive, Active, Creative, Negative and Objective. Use the sorting controls below to organize entries by length, or consult our noun grammar guide to explore examples of abstract vs. concrete nouns.

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Starts with A
24 words
active
alternative
adjective
affirmative
ambivalence
accusative
aversive
attributive
ablative
appositive
antiviolence
applicative
augmentative
agentive
antiderivative
ameliorative
adversative
absolutive
arrivisme
admirative
appellative
allative
antinarrative
abessive
Starts with B
3 words
bioequivalence
benefactive
bivalence
Starts with C
24 words
creative
comprehensive
comparative
corrective
connective
cursive
counteroffensive
contrivance
connivance
conjunctive
counternarrative
causative
correlative
copulative
contrapositive
concessive
continuative
counteractive
completive
catenative
cohortative
cessative
constative
comitative
Starts with D
24 words
drive
divide
divorce
dive
defensive
derivative
directive
divergence
deliverance
demonstrative
diminutive
deliverable
declarative
distributive
disincentive
dative
divestiture
determinative
drivetime
disjunctive
durative
derivate
dubitative
ditransitive
Starts with E
12 words
elective
equivalence
expletive
ergative
exclamative
elative
equative
equivoque
essive
equivalue
equivote
estivage
Starts with F
7 words
five
formative
fivepence
fivescore
factitive
factive
frequentative
Starts with G
3 words
give
genitive
gerundive
Starts with H
3 words
hyperdrive
hortative
hypersuperlative
Starts with I
22 words
initiative
incentive
intensive
imperative
indicative
iterative
indivisible
interrogative
infinitive
imitative
intransitive
invective
injunctive
imperfective
inceptive
inchoative
illative
inessive
ivresse
intensitive
incitative
intensative
Starts with J
2 words
jive
jussive
Starts with K
2 words
khedivate
khediviate
Starts with L
2 words
locative
laudative
Starts with M
11 words
motive
multiverse
multivariate
multiplicative
metanarrative
meliorative
multivalence
mediopassive
marivaudage
misdrive
modificative
Starts with N
10 words
negative
narrative
naivete
nominative
nosedive
nonnarrative
nonequivalence
nonderivative
numerative
necessitative
Starts with O
6 words
objective
offensive
overdrive
optative
obligative
obliviscence
Starts with P
24 words
positive
perspective
progressive
privilege
passive
primitive
provocative
preventive
possessive
prerogative
pejorative
performative
palliative
preparative
purgative
perfective
predicative
partitive
privative
prepositive
predive
presentative
prolative
postpositive
Starts with Q
5 words
quotative
quadrivalence
qualificative
quantivalence
quinquivalence
Starts with R
14 words
restrictive
retrospective
receivable
recessive
reflexive
recitative
reiterative
redrive
resumptive
resultative
redivorce
reviviscence
revivescence
redeliverance
Starts with S
15 words
subjective
substantive
superlative
subjunctive
skive
stimulative
stative
swive
survivance
suppletive
similative
sociative
suppositive
supraquantivalence
subtersuperlative
Starts with T
6 words
transitive
translative
terminative
totitive
trivalence
tirrivee
Starts with U
2 words
universe
univalence
Starts with V
6 words
vocative
vivace
volitive
vivre
vivisepulture
voluntative
Starts with W
1 words
waterdrive

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