Concrete Nouns That End in IVE
Explore 196 verified English concrete nouns ending with the suffix -IVE, including Drive, Positive, Active, Creative, Negative, Effective and Conservative. Useful for descriptive storytelling, sensory writing, and grammar lessons and rhyming patterns, browse these physical naming words for tangible objects you can see or touch below or compare physical and abstract noun usage in our noun grammar guide.
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Starts with A23 words
active
archive
additive
adhesive
abrasive
antihypertensive
anticorrosive
antitussive
antiresorptive
antisubversive
alterative
adventive
anticonvulsive
antiprogressive
anticonservative
alleviative
affricative
antiinfective
aperitive
abstersive
antifermentative
antiputrefactive
archrepresentative
Starts with B
2 words beehive
bioadhesive
Starts with C24 words
creative
conservative
comprehensive
collective
cooperative
captive
contraceptive
corrective
contemplative
commemorative
connective
corrosive
cursive
chive
curative
consumptive
carminative
chemopreventive
counteractive
calmative
convive
cyclosportive
cruive
contragestive
Starts with D21 words
drive
detective
dive
definitive
derivative
defective
digestive
depressive
dissociative
determinative
donative
dormitive
diapositive
desiccative
decongestive
detersive
depurative
depletive
divulsive
deoppilative
defensative
Starts with E16 words
effective
executive
exclusive
extractive
endive
eruptive
extrusive
expulsive
exfoliative
expurgative
electrosensitive
ejective
egressive
evacuative
exsiccative
expectorative
Starts with F5 words
five
fugitive
fixative
fricative
flexecutive
Starts with G
1 words glaive
Starts with H5 words
hive
hypertensive
hyperdrive
hypotensive
hyperconservative
Starts with I6 words
interactive
immunosuppressive
implosive
ingressive
internegative
incrassative
Starts with K
1 words khedive
Starts with L5 words
locomotive
laxative
lenitive
limitative
lambitive
Starts with M5 words
manipulative
missive
microdrive
maturative
mundificative
Starts with N12 words
negative
native
nonnative
neoconservative
nutritive
nonexecutive
nonconservative
nonrelative
normotensive
noncorrosive
nonexplosive
noneffective
Starts with O9 words
objective
olive
obsessive
operative
overdrive
ogive
occlusive
outdrive
oppilative
Starts with P16 words
positive
progressive
primitive
provocative
preventive
preservative
psychoactive
palliative
purgative
plosive
pendentive
photonegative
portative
preteritive
pseudoconservative
photopositive
Starts with Q
2 words quietive
quadriderivative
Starts with R14 words
relative
representative
recessive
restorative
recitative
rive
redrive
reduplicative
refrigerative
revulsive
reservative
refective
relaxative
resinoextractive
Starts with S21 words
sensitive
submissive
sedative
subversive
suppressive
skive
seropositive
stimulative
suppurative
schizoaffective
shive
sterndrive
superconservative
slive
siccative
stive
scrive
sternutative
stupefactive
superhive
solive
Starts with U4 words
ultraconservative
underdrive
updive
urinative
Starts with V3 words
votive
vomitive
vegetive