Rhyme Dictionary

Rhymes with “Clive”

♬50 rhyming words found

🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Clive"

50 words

These words rhyme exactly with "clive" — same ending sound.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
contrive	2	verb	To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
strive	1	verb	To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
drive	1	noun	To operate a vehicle:
derive	2	verb	(transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
archive	2	noun	A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
connive	2	verb	(intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
live	1	verb	(intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
revive	2	verb	(transitive) (figurative) To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.
alive	2		Having life; living; not dead.
thrive	1	verb	(intransitive) To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
shrive	1	verb	(religion, transitive and intransitive) To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.).
arrive	2	verb	(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
beehive	2	noun	A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.
skive	1	noun	(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
hive	1	noun	A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
jive	1	noun	(intransitive, colloquial) To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.
survive	2	verb	(intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
dive	1	noun	(intransitive) To swim under water.
deprive	2	verb	(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
shive	1	noun	A slice, especially of bread.
swive	1	verb	(archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman).
slive	1	noun	(slang) To live life to the fullest while being successful, glamorous, and confident.
stive	1	noun	(UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.
blive	1	verb	(obsolete) quickly; forthwith
overdrive	3	noun	(uncountable, figurative) A state of heightened activity.
nosedive	2	noun	(economics, etc.) A rapid fall, e.g. in price or value.
crash dive	2	noun	(idiomatic, military) An emergency maneuver by a submarine in which it suddenly descends, especially to considerable depth, usually in order to escape an attack or avoid a collision.
five	1	noun	The digit/figure 5.
test drive	2	noun	A sample driving session in a motor vehicle, in order to assess its quality before purchase.
sex drive	2	noun	The tendency or instinct of animals to engage in sexual activity.
vive	1		(obsolete) lively, animated
nose dive	2	noun	Alternative form of nosedive. [A headfirst fall or jump.]
take a dive	3	verb	To decline rapidly.
chive	1	noun	A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
tape drive	2	noun	(computing) A cartridge-based interface for computers that reads from and/or writes to a tape.
swan dive	2	noun	(diving) A forward dive performed with an arched back, the legs together, starting with arms outstretched when jumping, bringing them over the head when landing.
come alive	3	verb	(idiomatic) to become responsive and animated.
hard drive	2	noun	(computing, computer hardware) An electromechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid, rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
disk drive	2	noun	(computer hardware) A computer drive that reads disks.
take five	2	verb	(US, Canada, informal) To take a short, typically five-minute, break from some activity.
line drive	2	noun	(baseball, softball) A batted ball hit hard enough and low enough that it appears to travel in a relatively straight line.
power dive	3	verb	To perform such a dive.
fluid drive	3		the trademarked name that Chrysler Corporation assigned to a transmission driveline combination which replaced the flywheel with a hydraulic coupling and performed the same function as a modern torque converter, only without torque multiplication.
swallow dive	3	noun	a swan dive
disc drive	2	noun	(UK) Alternative spelling of disk drive. [(computer hardware) A computer drive that reads disks.]
external drive	4	noun	a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable
backhand drive	3	noun	a hard straight return made on the backhand side
forehand drive	3	noun	(sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
internal drive	4	noun	a drive mounted inside of a computer
sky dive	2		the twentieth album by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, recorded in 1972.