🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Progressive"
50 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "progressive" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| impressive | 3 | Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress. | |
| aggressive | 3 | noun | Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing. |
| excessive | 3 | Exceeding the usual bounds of something; too much (of amount); extravagant; immoderate. | |
| oppressive | 3 | Tyrannical or exercising unjust power. | |
| obsessive | 3 | noun | Having one thought or pursuing one activity to the absolute or nearly absolute exclusion of all others. |
| expressive | 3 | noun | Effectively conveying thought or feeling. |
| regressive | 3 | That tends to return, revert or regress. | |
| possessive | 3 | noun | (grammar) Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc. |
| crescive | 2 | (archaic) Increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development. | |
| pressive | 2 | (obsolete) pressing; urgent | |
| successive | 3 | Coming one after the other in a series. | |
| depressive | 3 | noun | Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic. |
| essive | 2 | noun | (grammar) of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates existence in a state or capacity. |
| recessive | 3 | noun | (genetics) Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait. |
| repressive | 3 | Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive | |
| unimpressive | 4 | Lacking the ability to impress, inability to produce an impression. | |
| guessive | 2 | (rare, obsolete) conjectural | |
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| confess of | 3 | — | |
| distress of | 3 | — | |
| dress of | 2 | — | |
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| egress of | 3 | — | |
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| excess of | 3 | — | |
| express of | 3 | — | |
| fess of | 2 | — | |
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| headdress of | 3 | — | |
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| impress of | 3 | — | |
| jess of | 2 | — | |
| largesse of | 3 | — | |
| lcs of | 4 | — | |
| les of | 2 | — | |
| less of | 2 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Progressive"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| pensive | 2 | Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought. | |
| objective | 3 | noun | Not influenced by the strong emotions or prejudices. |
| merit | 2 | noun | (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. |
| 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. | |
| expression | 3 | noun | The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. |
| collective | 3 | noun | Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. |
| pathetic | 3 | Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos. | |
| obsession | 3 | noun | An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered. |
| reflective | 3 | Pondering, especially thinking back on the past. | |
| impression | 3 | noun | The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person. |
| effective | 3 | noun | Having the power to produce a required effect or effects. |
| progression | 3 | noun | The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward. |
| settle | 2 | verb | To conclude or resolve (something): |
| blessing | 2 | noun | Good fortune. |
| reflexive | 3 | noun | (grammar) Referring back to the subject, or having an object equal to the subject. |
| suggestive | 3 | Tending to suggest or imply. | |
| incentive | 3 | noun | Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages. |
| offensive | 3 | noun | Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation. |
| message | 2 | noun | A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed. |
| aggression | 3 | noun | Hostile or destructive behavior or actions. |
| psychedelic | 4 | noun | Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered awareness, etc. |
| successful | 3 | Resulting in success; assuring or promoting success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect. | |
| dismissive | 3 | Showing disregard, indicating rejection, serving to dismiss. | |
| suggested | 3 | mentioned as worthy of acceptance | |
| metal | 2 | noun | Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity. |
| succession | 3 | noun | An act, process, or instance of succeeding: |
| defensive | 3 | noun | (chiefly sports) Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack. |
| protective | 3 | noun | Serving or intended to protect. |
| lesson | 2 | noun | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| selective | 3 | (of a person) Choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting. | |
| progressing | 3 | verb | (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance. |
| expensive | 3 | Having a high price or cost. | |
| helen | 2 | noun | (Greek mythology) The daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. |
| tested | 2 | the first official live album by punk rock band Bad Religion. | |
| edit | 2 | noun | To change a text, or a document. |
| festive | 2 | Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration. | |
| lessen | 2 | verb | (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce. |
| session | 2 | noun | A period of time devoted to a particular activity. |
| lettuce | 2 | noun | An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green or purple leaves. |
| expressing | 3 | (biochemistry) That translates or transcribes nucleic acid. | |
| stressing | 2 | verb | (intransitive, informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated. |
| progresses | 3 | verb | (intransitive) To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance. |
| tenses | 2 | noun | (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. |
| presses | 2 | noun | An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing. |
| guesses | 2 | noun | To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate. |
| era | 2 | noun | A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. |
| progressive era | 5 | noun | (historical) A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s. |
| progressives | 3 | noun | A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government. |
| westin | 2 | noun | A male given name. |
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