Rhyme Dictionary
Rhymes with “Elective”
/ɪˈlɛktɪv/
Something that is an option or that may be elected, like a course of tertiary study or a medical procedure.
♬100 rhyming words found
🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Elective"
50 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "elective" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| objective | 3 | noun | Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices. |
| perspective | 3 | noun | (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience. |
| collective | 3 | noun | Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. |
| prospective | 3 | noun | Likely or expected to happen or become. |
| reflective | 3 | Pondering, especially thinking back on the past. | |
| effective | 3 | noun | Having the power to produce a required effect or effects. |
| introspective | 4 | Examining one's own perceptions and sensory experiences; contemplative or thoughtful about oneself. | |
| defective | 3 | noun | Having one or more defects. |
| invective | 3 | noun | A severe or violent censure or reproach. |
| subjective | 3 | noun | Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment. |
| ineffective | 4 | Not having the desired effect; ineffectual; otiose. | |
| retrospective | 4 | noun | Of, relating to, or contemplating the past. |
| affective | 3 | Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions. | |
| irrespective | 4 | Heedless, regardless. | |
| protective | 3 | noun | Serving or intended to protect. |
| respective | 3 | Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own. | |
| directive | 3 | noun | An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal. |
| selective | 3 | (of a person) Choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting. | |
| linear perspective | 6 | noun | (art) A form of geometric perspective in which parallel lines are represented as converging in order to give the illusion of depth and distance. |
| connective | 3 | noun | Serving or tending to connect; connecting. |
| corrective | 3 | noun | Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct. |
| detective | 3 | noun | (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator. |
| overprotective | 5 | excessively protective, wanting to give too much protection (especially to children) | |
| police detective | 5 | noun | Synonym of detective (“a police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime”). |
| infective | 3 | noun | Able to cause infection; infectious |
| private detective | 5 | noun | Person who is not a government official who is hired to provide information about a person or group that is not widely available |
| projective | 3 | noun | of, relating to, or caused by a projection |
| store detective | 4 | noun | A person employed in a shop to detect and prevent shoplifting. |
| anti-infective | 5 | — | |
| convective | 3 | Of, pertaining to, or employing convection; convectional | |
| house detective | 4 | noun | A person employed by a privately owned establishment, such as a hotel or large retail store, with the job of preventing wrongdoing and apprehending violators of laws or other regulations. |
| hotel detective | 5 | A hotel detective is a person in plain clothes hired to monitor the security of a hotel and investigate various security, morality, or rule violations therein. | |
| highly infective | 5 | (of a microorganism) extremely infective | |
| affect of | 3 | — | |
| aftereffect of | 5 | — | |
| albrecht of | 3 | — | |
| architect of | 4 | — | |
| aspect of | 3 | — | |
| brecht of | 2 | — | |
| circumspect of | 4 | — | |
| collect of | 3 | — | |
| correct of | 3 | — | |
| detect of | 3 | — | |
| dialect of | 4 | — | |
| direct of | 3 | — | |
| disconnect of | 4 | — | |
| disrespect of | 4 | — | |
| effect of | 3 | — | |
| elect of | 3 | — | |
| erect of | 3 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Elective"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| vestige | 2 | noun | (by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present. |
| perceptive | 3 | Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition. | |
| vindictive | 3 | Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful. | |
| impressive | 3 | Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress. | |
| introspection | 4 | noun | (psychology) A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states. |
| aggressive | 3 | noun | Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. |
| eclectic | 3 | noun | Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles. |
| receptive | 3 | Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas. | |
| spectrum | 2 | noun | Specifically, a range of colours representing light (electromagnetic radiation) of contiguous frequencies; hence electromagnetic spectrum, visible spectrum, ultraviolet spectrum, etc. |
| hectic | 2 | noun | (figurative) Very busy with activity and confusion. |
| suggestive | 3 | Tending to suggest or imply. | |
| protection | 3 | noun | The process of keeping (something or someone) safe. |
| affected | 3 | noun | Influenced or changed by something. |
| deceptive | 3 | Likely or attempting to deceive. | |
| connected | 3 | Having relationships; involved with others. | |
| electric | 3 | noun | Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical. |
| skeptic | 2 | noun | Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so. |
| collected | 3 | (not comparable) Gathered together. | |
| direction | 3 | noun | A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston). |
| expressive | 3 | noun | Effectively conveying thought or feeling. |
| expected | 3 | Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur. | |
| accepted | 3 | Generally approved, believed, or recognized. | |
| selected | 3 | That have been selected or chosen. | |
| rejected | 3 | an animated surrealist short comedy film directed by Don Hertzfeldt that was released in 2000. | |
| protected | 3 | defended | |
| directed | 3 | In a manner emphasizing one's point of view. | |
| perfection | 3 | noun | The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence. |
| destructive | 3 | Causing destruction; damaging. | |
| detected | 3 | Having been noticed. | |
| projected | 3 | displayed | |
| infectious | 3 | (pathology, typically of a person) Able to infect others; capable of transmitting pathogens. | |
| erection | 3 | noun | (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood. |
| expensive | 3 | Having a high price or cost. | |
| scented | 2 | Having a pleasant aroma. | |
| elected | 3 | noun | One who is elected. |
| festive | 2 | Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration. | |
| predictive | 3 | noun | Useful in predicting. |
| respected | 3 | Deserving of respect; due special honor or appreciation. | |
| election | 3 | noun | A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote. |
| arrested | 3 | Having been placed under arrest, or having been charged with a crime. | |
| oral contraceptive | 6 | noun | a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception |
| selecting | 3 | verb | To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. |
| unreceptive | 4 | not receptive | |
| diabetic | 4 | noun | Having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus. |
| contraceptive | 4 | noun | That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse. |
| corrected | 3 | having something undesirable neutralized | |
| molesting | 3 | verb | To sexually assault or sexually harass. |
| emptive | 2 | (rare) Responding to or acting to counteract something when it happens (rather than beforehand). | |
| electives | 3 | noun | Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study. |
| german electives | 5 | — |
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