Rhyme Dictionary
Rhymes with “Incentive”
/ɪnˈsɛntɪv/
Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
♬100 rhyming words found
🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Incentive"
50 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "incentive" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| attentive | 3 | Paying attention; noticing, watching, listening, or attending closely. | |
| inventive | 3 | Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing. | |
| inattentive | 4 | Of or pertaining to a lack of attention; not paying attention; careless. | |
| preventive | 3 | noun | Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to. |
| disincentive | 4 | noun | That which discourages a particular behaviour; a deterrent. |
| accent of | 3 | — | |
| advent of | 3 | — | |
| again of | 3 | — | |
| airmen of | 3 | — | |
| amen of | 3 | — | |
| antenna of | 3 | — | |
| ascent of | 3 | — | |
| assent of | 3 | — | |
| augment of | 3 | — | |
| ben of | 2 | — | |
| bene of | 2 | — | |
| benn of | 2 | — | |
| bent of | 2 | — | |
| brent of | 2 | — | |
| businessmen of | 4 | — | |
| cement of | 3 | — | |
| cent of | 2 | — | |
| chen of | 2 | — | |
| cheyenne of | 3 | — | |
| chien of | 2 | — | |
| chretien of | 3 | — | |
| cnn of | 4 | — | |
| comedienne of | 5 | — | |
| consent of | 3 | — | |
| councilmen of | 4 | — | |
| dement of | 3 | — | |
| den of | 2 | — | |
| deneve | 2 | noun | — |
| dent of | 2 | — | |
| descent of | 3 | — | |
| discontent of | 4 | — | |
| dissent of | 3 | — | |
| en of | 2 | — | |
| ena of | 2 | — | |
| ent of | 2 | — | |
| event of | 3 | — | |
| extent of | 3 | — | |
| fen of | 2 | — | |
| ferment of | 3 | — | |
| gen of | 2 | — | |
| gent of | 2 | — | |
| ghent of | 2 | — | |
| glen of | 2 | — | |
| glenn of | 2 | — | |
| gunmen of | 3 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Incentive"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| apprehensive | 4 | noun | Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt; reluctant. |
| pensive | 2 | Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought. | |
| perceptive | 3 | Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition. | |
| 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. |
| extensive | 3 | Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast. | |
| relentless | 3 | Unremitting, steady and persistent. | |
| collective | 3 | noun | Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. |
| receptive | 3 | Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas. | |
| effective | 3 | noun | Having the power to produce a required effect or effects. |
| menace | 2 | noun | A perceived threat or danger. |
| demented | 3 | Insane; mentally ill. | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| deceptive | 3 | Likely or attempting to deceive. | |
| apprentice | 3 | noun | A trainee, especially in a skilled trade. |
| instrumental | 4 | noun | (music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice). |
| implemented | 4 | forced or compelled or put in force | |
| 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. |
| presented | 3 | (mathematics, of a group) Having a specified presentation, or a presentation with specified properties. | |
| defensive | 3 | noun | (chiefly sports) Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack. |
| protective | 3 | noun | Serving or intended to protect. |
| incentives | 3 | noun | Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. |
| momentum | 3 | noun | (physics) Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities. |
| 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. | |
| invented | 3 | fictional, made up, imaginary. | |
| resented | 3 | verb | (transitive) To feel resentment over; to consider as an affront. |
| census | 2 | noun | An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals. |
| redemptive | 3 | Causing, or relating to, redemption or saving; redeeming. | |
| percentage | 3 | noun | The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. |
| expensive | 3 | Having a high price or cost. | |
| scented | 2 | Having a pleasant aroma. | |
| prevented | 3 | verb | (transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). |
| festive | 2 | Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration. | |
| 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) | |
| placenta | 3 | noun | (anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth. |
| endive | 2 | noun | A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus). |
| lentil | 2 | noun | The seed of these plants, used as food. |
| vented | 2 | Having a vent (any sense). | |
| reinvented | 4 | verb | (transitive) To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to. |
| dentist | 2 | noun | A medical doctor who specializes in teeth. |
| rented | 2 | verb | (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent. |
| tented | 2 | Covered with tents. | |
| dented | 2 | (colloquial, derogatory, Internet slang) Extremely stupid. | |
| repented | 3 | verb | (intransitive) To feel pain, sorrow, or regret for what one has done or omitted to do; the cause for repenting may be indicated with "of". |
| belgian endive | 4 | noun | (Canada, US) Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, grown without sunlight to produce pale leaves. |
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