Adjectives with IVE
Browse 1,718 verified English adjectives containing the letters IVE, including Live, Positive, Active, Creative, Negative, Alive and Effective. Filter these describing words and descriptive modifiers by word length below, or check adjective order and comparative rules in our adjective grammar guide.
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Starts with A
24 words active
alive
alternative
attractive
administrative
aggressive
anniversary
abusive
addictive
automotive
adjective
adaptive
affirmative
authoritative
apprehensive
attentive
additive
adhesive
assertive
abrasive
appreciative
adoptive
assistive
affective
Starts with B
10 words bioactive
biodiverse
bijective
bioaccumulative
beehived
bioadhesive
benefactive
bisociative
benedictive
babblative
Starts with C
24 words creative
conservative
competitive
comprehensive
cognitive
collaborative
collective
cooperative
constructive
cumulative
captive
comparative
consecutive
cohesive
compulsive
contraceptive
corrective
coercive
communicative
conclusive
conducive
contemplative
combative
commemorative
Starts with D
24 words driven
diverse
detective
defensive
destructive
distinctive
decisive
descriptive
disruptive
deprived
definitive
decorative
derivative
directive
divisive
deceptive
defective
digestive
dismissive
depressive
divergent
drive-through
demonstrative
diminutive
Starts with E
24 words effective
executive
expensive
exclusive
extensive
excessive
expressive
elusive
elective
expansive
evasive
exhaustive
evocative
exploitative
expletive
emotive
evaluative
effusive
extractive
erosive
evaporative
exploitive
explorative
educative
Starts with F
24 words five
festive
fugitive
figurative
formative
furtive
fivefold
fixative
fictive
fricative
facilitative
facultative
federative
fivescore
fermentative
fivepenny
factitive
factive
frequentative
fruitive
fissive
fivepin
fermentive
fluxive
Starts with G
13 words given
generative
giveaway
genitive
germinative
gerundive
gustative
gravitative
gesticulative
gestative
glaived
granulative
gemmative
Starts with H
24 words hyperactive
hypertensive
hypersensitive
heteronormative
hyperaggressive
hyperresponsive
hypotensive
hortative
hyperreactive
hallucinative
hyperconservative
hyperproductive
hivelike
habitative
hiveless
hyperspeculative
humiliative
hesitative
homofermentative
hiveward
humective
hemagglutinative
hebetative
hypersuperlative
Starts with I
24 words initiative
interactive
impressive
innovative
incentive
intuitive
intensive
inclusive
informative
imperative
indicative
inexpensive
ineffective
investigative
inactive
intrusive
invasive
imaginative
insensitive
immersive
interpretive
impulsive
instinctive
iterative
Starts with J
6 words jive
jussive
jiveass
justificative
judicative
jurisdictive
Starts with L
24 words live
legislative
liver
lively
lucrative
locomotive
laxative
livery
liveried
liverpudlian
livelong
liveaboard
locative
liveweight
liquefactive
lenitive
livered
liverish
laudative
lubricative
limitative
lustrative
lacerative
liverless
Starts with M
24 words massive
motive
manipulative
meditative
metacognitive
missive
misconceived
multiplicative
maladaptive
motiveless
metanarrative
microaggressive
multivendor
mitigative
myeloproliferative
meliorative
misrepresentative
mediative
mutative
microinvasive
motivative
magnetostrictive
mahoosive
medicative
Starts with N
24 words negative
native
narrative
naive
normative
neurodivergent
neurodegenerative
noninvasive
neurodiverse
nominative
nonnative
nonresponsive
neoconservative
noncompetitive
nonnegative
nutritive
nondestructive
nonexclusive
nonproductive
nonconsecutive
nonexecutive
nonintrusive
nonreactive
neurocognitive
Starts with O
24 words objective
offensive
olive
oppressive
obsessive
operative
oxidative
overprotective
overactive
obstructive
obtrusive
oversensitive
overaggressive
optative
occlusive
ostensive
overimaginative
olfactive
originative
opinionative
overassertive
obliterative
overconservative
overattentive
Starts with P
24 words positive
perspective
progressive
productive
protective
passive
primitive
prospective
proactive
provocative
predictive
persuasive
preventive
possessive
punitive
pervasive
perceptive
prohibitive
prerogative
pejorative
prescriptive
preservative
preconceived
pensive
Starts with Q
9 words qualitative
quantitative
quivery
quotative
quietive
qualificative
quidditative
quiverish
quadriderivative
Starts with R
24 words relative
representative
reproductive
respective
responsive
reflective
repetitive
restrictive
retrospective
reactive
radioactive
receptive
riverside
retroactive
regressive
repressive
repulsive
recessive
riveting
redemptive
recursive
restorative
riverfront
reflexive
Starts with S
24 words sensitive
subjective
supportive
selective
substantive
successive
speculative
submissive
suggestive
seductive
secretive
superlative
sedative
subversive
suppressive
subjunctive
summative
shivery
sniveling
subtractive
supermassive
supereffective
seropositive
stimulative
Starts with T
24 words tentative
transformative
talkative
transitive
transgressive
transportive
tractive
tardive
transmissive
translative
transcriptive
tensive
terminative
titillative
tolerative
transmutative
tussive
transfusive
traditive
tergiversant
traductive
thermoelectromotive
tortive
transmigrative
Starts with U
24 words universal
unattractive
unresponsive
unproductive
unforgiven
unalive
unimpressive
unobtrusive
uncooperative
upriver
unimaginative
uncompetitive
undelivered
undeliverable
unrepresentative
uninformative
unsupportive
ultraconservative
unperceived
ulcerative
universalist
ultrasensitive
unappreciative
uncommunicative
Starts with V
24 words vindictive
vegetative
votive
vituperative
violative
vocative
vasoactive
vasoconstrictive
volitive
valuative
vindicative
vomitive
vegetive
variative
venerative
viverrine
vitative
vibrative
visive
ventilative
verificative
visitative
voluntative
viverrid
Starts with W
2 words writative
wanthriven