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Definition: Attractive |
AttractiveAdjective1. Pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm; "a remarkably attractive young man"; "an attractive personality"; "attractive clothes"; "a book with attractive illustrations". 2. Having power to arouse interest; "an attractive opportunity"; "the job is attractive because of the pay". 3. (physics) having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull; "an attractive force"; "the knife hung on a magnetic board". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "attractive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: AttractiveSynonyms: attractive(a) (adj), magnetic (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: repulsive(a) (adj), unattractive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly. |
Love | Lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an angel. |
Motive | Adjective: impulsive, motive; suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory; protreptical; inviting, tempting; Verb: suasive, suasory; seductive, attractive; fascinating; (pleasing); provocative; (exciting). |
Pain | Attractive; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing; (exciting); cheering; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, |
Recession | Adjective: attracting; Verb: attrahent, attractive, adducent, adductive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Attractive |
| Specialty definitions using "attractive": anti takeover measure ♦ bar attendant, Beaux Yeux, bremsstrahlung effect ♦ CASEARIA SYLVESTRIS, CITHAREXYLUM, configuration programming, CORDIA HETEROPHYLLA, cuspy, custodial services manager ♦ Debye length, degradation screens, director, housekeeping ♦ EXECUTIVE HOUSEKEEPER ♦ floor housekeeper, free-air anomaly ♦ Garlick, gem expert, GEMOLOGIST, Guage ♦ housekeeper, administrative, housekeeper, head, Hydrogen Bonding ♦ Lavine ♦ M1 ♦ Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Nuclear force ♦ Omphale, outline font ♦ PELTOGYNE PURPUREA, Peppermint, PHOTOGRAPH RETOUCHER, PRODUCE WEIGHER ♦ Reef suit, roxy ♦ Salt, SAMPLE WORKER, SCOTS, SHORTY, Single Electron Tunneling Technology ♦ Witch. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "attractive": Alliciency. (references) |
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Screenplays | Craig, I don't find you attractive, but Lotti I'm smitten with you. I am but only when in your in Malkovich (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) I'd like to make her look a little more attractive, how far can you pull back (Tootsie; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Don McGuire) You know, when I was alive I would have found her attractive. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner) I've been on a small Greek island with a lot of women who look like Zorba, I never thought I'd find women attractive ever again (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) | |
Lyrics | I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul (Affirmation; performing artist: Savage Garden) | |
Clever | Your thoughts can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Poster published on behalf of the Naval Rendezvous, Salem, Massachusetts, offering U.S. Navy service as an attractive alternative to the wartime military draft. Credit: NAVY. |  | The fact that he had a solid gold front tooth made him peculiarly attractive. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Making the polls attractive to the anti-suffragists / painted by Ralph Barton. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | This attractive young woman, one of the many working in Canada's great Hurricane plant at Fort William, is shown busy at the assembly of a rudder section [...]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | San Antonio River--Like a rural Venice--An attractive spot in one of the South's most beautiful cities, San Antonio, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Richard R. Gill, Donley County, Texas, prepares eggs for the market. The large containers are filled with homemade lard for this work grant family. Note that Mrs. Gill's attractive jacket is made from a sugar sack. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Fungus" by Helen Mc Commentary: "While you may not think fungus is attractive, this did have a sense of natural beauty...in a strange kind of way ." | "Honeysuckle" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Honeysuckle (Lonicera) The honeysuckle family includes 180 species of shrubs and climbing vines that grow in varied habitats ranging from woodlands to rocky places. . All are known for their attractive, often fragrant, 1/2- to 1-inch pink, white or red" |
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 | Excellent; great; superb; superior; good news; accomplished; admirable; attractive; capital; certified; champion; choice; choicest; desirable; distinctive; distinguished; estimable; exceptional; exemplary; exquisite; fine; finest; first; first-class; firs. |
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Abraham Lincoln | Military glory --the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Never had the exquisite sight, smell, sensation of nature, tranquil, warm, and brilliant after a storm, been more attractive to her. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Small, frequent meals and snacks are attractive to most children. (references) | |
People with dementia are not likely to be attractive to managed care organizations. (references) | ||
Because bromocriptine can be taken orally, it is an attractive choice as primary drug or in combination with other treatments. (references) | ||
Business | This group has become an attractive niche for foreign vendors. (references) | |
American manufacturers offer attractive prices for their products. (references) | ||
Discount shopping malls, a rarity in the U.K., are especially attractive. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | Dozens of foreign companies find Tula attractive. (references) |
Ghana | Low-income levels make older cars more attractive. (references) | |
Tanzania | The bank has an attractive rural and urban presence. (references) | |
Human Rights | Peru | In August President Toledo nearly doubled the salaries of tenured judges and prosecutors to make work in the judiciary more attractive and to reduce corruption incentives. (references) |
Political Economy | SAUDI ARABIA | Overall compensation tends to be at levels that make employment with U.S. firms attractive. (references) |
AUSTRIA | In past years, the government has cut red tape to make Austria more attractive for investors. (references) | |
Trade | Hungary | Foreign banking subsidiaries have won many of the most attractive clients. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Third, for some banks to be attractive to investors, currency controls must be eliminated. (references) | |
India | For many American companies, ADB projects represent an attractive opportunity for business in Asia. (references) | |
Travel | Korea | Many of the hotels offer attractive corporate discounts, but they are usually not available if you book through a travel agent. (references) |
Taiwan | These teas can either be purchased in attractive packages for use at home or sampled in one of the island's many traditional Chinese-style tea houses. (references) | |
Chad | Douguia: Located about 45 minutes north of N'Djamena towards Karal and Lake Chad, this resort offers a large swimming pool, restaurant, and comfortable overnight facilities in an attractive setting on the banks of the Chari River. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Russia | Advertisements offering high paying jobs abroad to young and attractive women were extremely common. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | The boy's father claimed that an agent who promised them an attractive salary had brought the family to the country. (references) | |
China | The cost of betrothal gifts may exceed the price of a bride and thus makes purchasing a bride more attractive to poor rural families. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil. |
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Bob Barker | Well, obviously, they have to be very attractive physically. They have to look smashing in a swimsuit. And we would like to have them be bright and able to make a refrigerator come alive for you. |
Mary Tyler Moore | The option isn't very attractive. The other alternative to just not survive is not part of my nature. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | A community where law is the rule of conduct and where courts, not mobs, execute its penalties is the only attractive field for business investments and honest labor. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | While the private automobile will continue to be the principal means of transportation for many Americans, public transportation can become an increasingly attractive alternative. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | If we value work, we cannot justify a system that makes welfare more attractive than work. |
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| "Attractive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Attractive" is used about 5,147 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5,147 | 1,902 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "attractive": attractive feature ♦ attractive force ♦ attractive girl ♦ attractive offer ♦ attractive power ♦ sexually attractive. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "attractive": attractive-looking, attractive-to. | |
Ending with "attractive": commercially-attractive, environmentally-attractive, ever-attractive, militarily-attractive, more-attractive, semi-attractive, user-attractive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "attractive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aantreklik, aanloklik. (various references) | |
Albanian | tërheqës (absorbing, absorptive, adorable, alluring, appealing, attractable, catchy, charismatic, comely, cunning, cute, drawer, dreamy, engaging, engrossing, enticing, fetching, interesting, inviting, jolly, likable, likeable, nice, personable, pleasing, pretty, showy, sightly, winsome), ngashënjyes (alluring, seducer, seductive), joshës (alluring, captivating, charming, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, sexy, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome), i hirshëm (charming, delightful, engaging, fancy, graceful). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاتن (alluring, breathtaking, captivating, catching, charming, cute, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), محبب (desirable, grainy, granular, granulated, likable, lovely), ساحر (bewitched, captivating, charming, conjuror, darling, ducky, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, magic, magical, magnetic, magus, mesmeric, pleasant, prestigious, ravishing, stunning, taking, winning, winsome, zestful), جذاب (allurement, alluring, appealing, becoming, captivating, catching, catchy, charming, cute, desirable, ducky, engaging, enticing, fascinating, fetching, fine, inviting, magnetic, magnetizing, nice, picturesquely, pleasant, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sweet, taking, tasty), الفاتن (charmer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | привлекателен (alluring, appealing, catching, catchy, congenial, cute, debonair, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lickerish, likable, likeable, likely, lovable, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, seductive, sightly, taking, tempting, winsome, yummy), примамлив (alluring, siren, tempting). (various references) | |
Chinese | 有吸引力, 引人注意 . (various references) | |
Croatian | privlaèno. (various references) | |
Czech | atraktivní (goodly), poutavý (absorbing, arresting, catchy, exciting, griping, gripping, intriguing, thrilling, winning), přitažlivý (alluring, catchy, desirable, prepossessing, toothsome), pùvabný (appealing, charming, comely, dainty, graceful, gracious, ingratiating, inviting, lightsome, lovely, pleasing, prepossessing, statuesque, winsome), lákavý (catchpenny, inviting, seductive, tempting), hezký (considerable, fair, fine, good, good looking, gorgeous, handsome, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty). (various references) | |
Danish | attraktivt dæmningssted (attractive site), tiltraekningskraefternes effekt (attractive effect, effect of attractive forces), tiltrækningskraft (attraction), der er ikke paavist nogen forbedring i stoevbekaempelsen ved anvendelse af lydboelgeapparater (enhancement of collection of respirable-size dust particles by sonics has not proved attractive in the past). (various references) | |
Dutch | aantrekkelijk (pleasing), aantrekkelýk (appetizing, pleasing), aanlokkelijk (alluring, enticing, tempting), aanlokkelýk (alluring, enticing, tempting), lekker (alluring, enticing, nice, tasty, tempting). (various references) | |
Esperanto | alloga, franda (alluring, enticing, tempting). (various references) | |
Farsi | فریبنده (Captious, Deceptive, Glamorous, Sophisticate, Tempter, Witch), کشنده (Deadly, Fatal, Killer, Mortal, Murderous, Pernicious, Tracker), جالب (Marvelous, Memorable, Spicy, Yummy), جاذب (Absorbent, Bibulous, Catchy), دلکش , دلربا. (various references) | |
Finnish | viehkeä (charming, graceful), viehättävä (charming, lovely), sympaattinen (sympathetic), sievä (cute, handsome, pretty), puoleensavetävä, puoleen, miellyttävä (agreeable, enjoyable, likable, lovely, nice, pleasant, pleasing), houkutteleva (beguiling, tempting). (various references) | |
French | attrayant, attirant (attracting). (various references) | |
Frisian | aardich (charming, important, lovely, serious), leidich, ferloklik, bekoarlik. (various references) | |
German | reizvoll (appealing, challenging, charming, delightful), attraktiv (appealing, attractively, comely, fetching, palatable, palatably), anziehend (attracted, attracting, attractively, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing). (various references) | |
Greek | ωραίοσ (beauteous, beautiful, fair, fancy, fine, handsome, lovely, nice, peach, pulchritudinous, rot, winsome), ελκυστικόσ (buxom, catching, desirable, engaging, inviting, prepossessing, taking, winning, winsome), ελκυστικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלבב (cordial, endearing, enticing), מושך (drawer, inviting, taking, tempting), מרהיב (spectacular), חנני (comely, graceful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vonzó (alluring, appealing, desirable, engaging, enticing, fetching, magnetic, seductive), bájos (catchy, charming, comely, cunning, engaging, graceful, gracious, lovely, sweet). (various references) | |
Indonesian | apik (chic, neat, tidy, trim), menarik (appealing, attract, catchy, draw, engageing, haul, personable, withdraw). (various references) | |
Italian | seducente (catching, enticing, infatuating, seductive, tempting), attraente (catching, catchy, charming, cute, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, inviting, killing, likable, likeable, lovely, sexy, taking, winsome), allettante (alluring, enticing, luring, tantalizing, tempting). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 愛敬のある (charming), 格好のいい (good-looking, stylish), 格好いい (good-looking, stylish), アトピー性皮膚炎 (ad, ad impact, add-on, add-on module, adobe, advertisement, at random, atmosphere, atom, atomic, atopic dermatitis, atrium, attraction, attractor, attribute, autoload, studio). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かっこうのいい (good-looking, stylish), かっこういい (good-looking, stylish), かっこいい (good-looking, stylish), あいきょうのある (charming), アトラクティブ . (various references) | |
Korean | 매력 (Glamour). (various references) | |
Manx | tayrnyssagh (appetible), tayrnagh (appealing, arresting, captivating, catchy, fascinating, fetching, inviting, magnetic, taking, tractive, witching), cleaynagh (addict, circumventory, coaxing, deviationist, inclinable, inclining, pervert, slopewise, tempter, witching), bwoyagh (beauteous, beautiful, comely, handsome, lovely, pretty). (various references) | |
Papiamen | atraktivo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attractiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | atrativo (appeal, attraction, charm, draw, dribblet, graceful, loadstone, relish, savor, savour, seduction). (various references) | |
Romanian | atractiv (catching, coloury), atrãgãtor (alluring, attractively, beautiful, catchy, fair, fascinating, likable, lovely, luscious, magnetic, pleasing, prepossessing, seemly, sweet, taking, winning, winsome), agreabil (agreeable, agreeably, boon, charming, cheerful, delightful, enjoyable, genial, genially, good, gratefully, gratifying, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth-faced), ademenitor (alluring, attractively, corrupter, inviting, invitingly, perverter, seducer, seductive, tempter), simpatic (attractively, congenial, inclination, ingratiating, kindly, likable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, shine, sympathetic), picant (fruity, hot, peppery, piquant, poignant, pungent, racy, salt, Savory, savoury, snappy, spicy), nurliu (charming), nostim (amusing, droll, funny, good, pert), ispititor (cajoling, enticing, inviting, taking, tempting), interesant (amusing, appealing, catchy, fruity, interesting, nutty, readable, sapid, strange), drãguţ (beloved, charming, comely, cute, dainty, darling, dinky, good looking, handsome, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, nice-looking, pretty, sweet, sweetheart), drãgãstos (affectionate, affectionately, amative, amorous, charming, dearly, loving, lovingly, sweet), chemãtor (alluring, appealing, calling). (various references) | |
Russian | привлекательный (alluring, appealing, beguiling, catching, cuddly, cunning, dinky, engaging, enticing, fetching, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice-looking, pretty, quaint, snazzy, well-favoured, well-looking, winsome). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | atraktivan, zgodan (appropriate, apt, comely, convenient, felicitous, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, occasional, opportune, pat, suitable), privlačan (alluring, arresting, catchy, charming, engaging, fetching, foxy, personable, prepossessing, sexy, toothsome, winning, winsome), primamljiv (alluring, inviting, lickerish, tempting). (various references) | |
Spanish | atractivo (affinity, allure, allurement, alluring, appeal, appealing, attiring, attraction, attractiveness, catching, charm, chic, colorful, colourful, cool, delightful, engaging, fetching, gilt, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, good looking, inviting, kissable, likeable, lure, magnetic, neat, nice-looking, prepossessing, seduction, seductive, seductiveness, seemliness, seemly, sexy, taking, temptation, tempting, whatever, winsome), atrayente (alluring, catchy, fetching, inviting). (various references) | |
Swedish | tilldragande (fetching, magnetic, taking), lockande (alluring, appealing, inveiglement, inviting, tempting), attraktiv (appealing, comely, inviting, personable, prepossessing). (various references) | |
Turkish | alimli, alımlı (charming, comely, endearing, engaging, fetching, prepossessing), ilgi çekici (absorbing, challenging, interesting, intriguing), göz alıcı (eye-catching, flamboyant, glamorous, glittering, grandiose, jazzy, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, spectacular, splendiferous, staring, striking), cazip (alluring, appealing, attracting, catching, catchy, conspicuous, endearing, enticing, inviting, piquant, taking, tempting), cazibeli (charming, enticing, prepossessing), çekici (alluring, appealing, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, stunning, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gцrnьkli (eminent, visible). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | притягальний, привабливий (alluring, amiable, appealing, appetible, appetizing, arresting, attractable, canny, captivating, catching, catchy, clean-cut, compelling, engaging, fetching, gash, likable, likeable, lovable, nice-looking, pleasing, rose colored, rose coloured, specious, well favored, well-favoured, winning, winsome). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quyến rũ; có duyên, lôi cuốn (alluring, arrestingly, catching, catchy, tempting, winning, winningly), hút thu hút, hấp dẫn (absorbing, arresting, arrestingly, catchy, gravitational, gravitative, intriguing, inviting, nutty, taking, winningly, winsome). (various references) | |
Welsh | atyniadol, deniadol, den.gar. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ulutin. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | blanda, blande, blandis, suave, suavem, suavi, suavis, suavissimi, suavissimos, suavissimum, suavissimus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "attractive": attractively, attractiveness, attractivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "attractive": unattractive. (additional references) | |
Words containing "attractive": unattractively, unattractiveness, unattractivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Attractive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atractive, hattractive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "attractive" (pronounced utra"ktiv) |
| 8 | u t r a" k t i v | unattractive. |
| 6 | -r a" k t i v | refractive. |
| 5 | -a" k t i v | active, hyperactive, inactive, interactive, overactive, proactive, radioactive, reactive, retroactive. |
| 4 | -k t i v | addictive, adjective, affective, collective, conductive, connective, constructive, corrective, counterproductive, defective, destructive, detective, directive, distinctive, effective, elective, ineffective, infective, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, introspective, invective, irrespective, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, perspective, photoconductive, predictive, productive, projective, prospective, protective, reconstructive, reflective, reproductive, respective, restrictive, retrospective, seductive, selective, subjective, superconductive, unproductive, vindictive. |
| 3 | -t i v | accommodative, abortive, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-r-t-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: activate, cavitate, tractate, tractive, vicarate. | |
-3 letters: arietta, attract, attrite, avarice, cattier, cavetti, caviare, citrate, tattier, teacart, titrate, variate, vittate. | |
-4 letters: active, atavic, attire, aviate, carate, cattie, caveat, caviar, cravat, ratite, tatter, tattie, titter, trivet, vacate, vittae. | |
-5 letters: acari, aceta, aecia, aiver, areca, areic, atria, attar, attic, avert, carat, caret, carte, carve, cater, caver, cavie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-r-t-t-t-v" | |
+2 letters: attractively, unattractive. | |
+4 letters: attractiveness, unattractively. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Translations: Ancient 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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