🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Apprehensive"
39 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "apprehensive" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| pensive | 2 | Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought. | |
| comprehensive | 4 | noun | Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something. |
| extensive | 3 | Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast. | |
| offensive | 3 | noun | Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation. |
| intensive | 3 | noun | Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough. |
| defensive | 3 | noun | (chiefly sports) Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack. |
| inoffensive | 4 | not offensive | |
| expensive | 3 | Having a high price or cost. | |
| inexpensive | 4 | Involving little expense; reasonable in price; cheap. | |
| tensive | 2 | Of or pertaining to tension | |
| counteroffensive | 5 | noun | US spelling of counter-offensive. [An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.] |
| hypertensive | 4 | noun | Of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension. |
| commonsense of | 4 | — | |
| defence of | 3 | — | |
| defense of | 3 | — | |
| dense of | 2 | — | |
| dispense of | 3 | — | |
| expense of | 3 | — | |
| fence of | 2 | — | |
| frankincense of | 4 | — | |
| hence of | 2 | — | |
| immense of | 3 | — | |
| incense of | 3 | — | |
| intense of | 3 | — | |
| lense of | 2 | — | |
| offense of | 3 | — | |
| pence of | 2 | — | |
| pense of | 2 | — | |
| prensa of | 2 | — | |
| pretense of | 3 | — | |
| recompense of | 4 | — | |
| sensa of | 2 | — | |
| sense of | 2 | — | |
| spence of | 2 | — | |
| spens of | 2 | — | |
| suspense of | 3 | — | |
| tense of | 2 | — | |
| thence of | 2 | — | |
| whence of | 2 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Apprehensive"
41 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| apprehension | 4 | noun | Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future. |
| essential | 3 | noun | Necessary. |
| perceptive | 3 | Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition. | |
| contention | 3 | noun | Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle. |
| relentless | 3 | Unremitting, steady and persistent. | |
| tremendous | 3 | Notable for its size, power, or excellence. | |
| attentive | 3 | Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely. | |
| aggressive | 3 | noun | Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. |
| inventive | 3 | Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing. | |
| receptive | 3 | Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas. | |
| potential | 3 | noun | A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to). |
| menace | 2 | noun | A perceived threat or danger. |
| intention | 3 | noun | A course of action that a person intends to follow. |
| consequences | 4 | noun | An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written. |
| tension | 2 | noun | The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other. |
| incentive | 3 | noun | Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. |
| horrendous | 3 | Extremely bad; awful; terrible. | |
| obsessive | 3 | noun | Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others. |
| apprentice | 3 | noun | A trainee, especially in a skilled trade. |
| rejection | 3 | noun | The act of rejecting. |
| interdependence | 5 | noun | The condition of being interdependent. |
| sentence | 2 | noun | (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. |
| dimension | 3 | noun | A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth. |
| invention | 3 | noun | Something invented. |
| reception | 3 | noun | The act of receiving. |
| attention | 3 | noun | (uncountable) Mental focus. |
| mention | 2 | verb | A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. |
| apprehended | 4 | Conceived; understood. | |
| defenseless | 3 | Lacking any form of defense; vulnerable; open to attack. | |
| suspended | 3 | Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed. | |
| offenses | 3 | noun | The act of offending. |
| expenses | 3 | "Expenses" is the seventh episode of the third season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad. | |
| pencil | 2 | noun | A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper. |
| senses | 2 | The Senses, or Sense, were a Dacian tribe in the southern region of Dacia. | |
| ended | 2 | (especially in combination) Having (a specified kind or number of) ends. | |
| defended | 3 | Having defenses. | |
| mentions | 2 | verb | To make a short reference to something. |
| quenches | 2 | verb | (transitive) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst. |
| afrocentric | 4 | Focusing on black African people. | |
| benzes | 2 | noun | A surname from German. |
| independence | 4 | noun | The quality or state of being independent; lack of dependence; the state of not being reliant on, or controlled by, others. |
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