Countable Nouns That End in IVE
Explore 364 verified English countable nouns ending with the suffix -IVE, including Drive, Positive, Active, Creative, Negative, Effective and Conservative. Useful for ESL grammar practice, determiner usage, and plural spelling and rhyming patterns, browse these count nouns with singular and plural forms below or review singular and plural count rules in our noun grammar guide.
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Starts with A24 words
active
alternative
archive
adjective
affirmative
additive
adhesive
abrasive
antihypertensive
accusative
aversive
attributive
ablative
appositive
anticorrosive
applicative
augmentative
agentive
antitussive
antiresorptive
antiderivative
ameliorative
adversative
absolutive
Starts with B3 words
beehive
bioadhesive
benefactive
Starts with C24 words
creative
conservative
comprehensive
collaborative
collective
cooperative
captive
comparative
contraceptive
corrective
contemplative
commemorative
connective
corrosive
cursive
counteroffensive
chive
curative
conjunctive
counternarrative
consumptive
causative
correlative
carminative
Starts with D24 words
drive
detective
dive
defensive
definitive
derivative
directive
defective
digestive
depressive
demonstrative
diminutive
declarative
distributive
dissociative
disincentive
dative
determinative
disjunctive
durative
dubitative
ditransitive
desiderative
donative
Starts with E23 words
effective
executive
exclusive
elective
expletive
extractive
endive
eruptive
extrusive
ergative
exclamative
elative
equative
expulsive
exfoliative
expurgative
electrosensitive
ejective
egressive
essive
evacuative
exsiccative
expectorative
Starts with F9 words
five
fugitive
formative
fixative
fricative
factitive
factive
frequentative
flexecutive
Starts with G3 words
genitive
glaive
gerundive
Starts with H7 words
hive
hypertensive
hyperdrive
hypotensive
hortative
hyperconservative
hypersuperlative
Starts with I24 words
initiative
interactive
incentive
intensive
imperative
indicative
iterative
interrogative
infinitive
imitative
intransitive
invective
immunosuppressive
implosive
injunctive
imperfective
inceptive
ingressive
inchoative
illative
internegative
inessive
intensitive
incitative
Starts with J
2 words jive
jussive
Starts with K
1 words khedive
Starts with L7 words
locomotive
laxative
locative
lenitive
laudative
limitative
lambitive
Starts with M12 words
motive
manipulative
missive
multiplicative
metanarrative
meliorative
microdrive
mediopassive
maturative
misdrive
modificative
mundificative
Starts with N19 words
negative
native
narrative
nominative
nonnative
nosedive
neoconservative
nutritive
nonexecutive
nonconservative
nonrelative
normotensive
nonnarrative
noncorrosive
nonderivative
nonexplosive
noneffective
numerative
necessitative
Starts with O12 words
objective
offensive
olive
obsessive
operative
overdrive
ogive
optative
occlusive
outdrive
obligative
oppilative
Starts with P24 words
positive
perspective
progressive
passive
primitive
provocative
preventive
possessive
prerogative
pejorative
preservative
performative
psychoactive
palliative
preparative
purgative
plosive
perfective
predicative
partitive
privative
prepositive
pendentive
photonegative
Starts with Q4 words
quotative
quietive
qualificative
quadriderivative
Starts with R20 words
relative
representative
restrictive
retrospective
recessive
restorative
reflexive
recitative
rive
reiterative
redrive
reduplicative
resumptive
resultative
refrigerative
revulsive
reservative
refective
relaxative
resinoextractive
Starts with S24 words
sensitive
subjective
substantive
submissive
superlative
sedative
subversive
suppressive
subjunctive
skydive
skive
seropositive
stimulative
stative
swive
suppurative
schizoaffective
shive
sterndrive
superconservative
slive
suppletive
siccative
stive
Starts with T4 words
transitive
translative
terminative
totitive
Starts with U4 words
ultraconservative
underdrive
updive
urinative
Starts with V6 words
votive
vocative
volitive
vomitive
vegetive
voluntative
Starts with W
1 words waterdrive