Abstract Nouns That End in IVE

Explore 196 verified English abstract nouns ending with the suffix -IVE, including Give, Drive, Positive, Active, Creative, Negative and Objective. Useful for essay writing, poetry, and expressive communication and rhyming patterns, browse these idea words for emotions, qualities, and intangible concepts below or explore examples of abstract vs. concrete nouns in our noun grammar guide.

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Starts with A23 words
active
alternative
adjective
affirmative
accusative
aversive
attributive
ablative
appositive
applicative
augmentative
agentive
antiderivative
ameliorative
adversative
absolutive
admirative
appellative
allative
antinarrative
abessive
adessive
afformative
Starts with B
1 words
benefactive
Starts with C24 words
creative
comprehensive
comparative
corrective
connective
cursive
counteroffensive
conjunctive
counternarrative
causative
correlative
copulative
contrapositive
concessive
continuative
counteractive
completive
catenative
cohortative
cessative
constative
comitative
coalternative
compellative
Starts with D23 words
drive
dive
defensive
derivative
directive
demonstrative
diminutive
declarative
distributive
disincentive
dative
determinative
disjunctive
durative
dubitative
ditransitive
desiderative
denominative
deverbative
discretive
delocutive
defensative
deprivative
Starts with E7 words
elective
expletive
ergative
exclamative
elative
equative
essive
Starts with F5 words
five
formative
factitive
factive
frequentative
Starts with G3 words
give
genitive
gerundive
Starts with H3 words
hyperdrive
hortative
hypersuperlative
Starts with I20 words
initiative
incentive
intensive
imperative
indicative
iterative
interrogative
infinitive
imitative
intransitive
invective
injunctive
imperfective
inceptive
inchoative
illative
inessive
intensitive
incitative
intensative
Starts with J
2 words
jive
jussive
Starts with L
2 words
locative
laudative
Starts with M7 words
motive
multiplicative
metanarrative
meliorative
mediopassive
misdrive
modificative
Starts with N8 words
negative
narrative
nominative
nosedive
nonnarrative
nonderivative
numerative
necessitative
Starts with O5 words
objective
offensive
overdrive
optative
obligative
Starts with P24 words
positive
perspective
progressive
passive
primitive
provocative
preventive
possessive
prerogative
pejorative
performative
palliative
preparative
purgative
perfective
predicative
partitive
privative
prepositive
predive
presentative
prolative
postpositive
preformative
Starts with Q
2 words
quotative
qualificative
Starts with R9 words
restrictive
retrospective
recessive
reflexive
recitative
reiterative
redrive
resumptive
resultative
Starts with S13 words
subjective
substantive
superlative
subjunctive
skive
stimulative
stative
swive
suppletive
similative
sociative
suppositive
subtersuperlative
Starts with T4 words
transitive
translative
terminative
totitive
Starts with V3 words
vocative
volitive
voluntative
Starts with W
1 words
waterdrive

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