Rhymes with detective
de·tec·tive
D d Three-syllable rhymes
- affective — relating to affects
- collective — Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
- connective — A connective is the same as a conjunction.
- convective — physics: transferring heat, etc.
- corrective — Corrective measures or techniques are intended to put right something that is wrong.
- defective — If something is defective, there is something wrong with it and it does not work properly.
- directive — serving to direct; directing: a directive board.
- effective — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
- infective — infectious.
- invective — vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- perspective — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- projective — of or relating to projection.
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protective — having the quality or function of protecting: a protective covering.
- reflective — that reflects; reflecting.
- respective — pertaining individually or severally to each of a number of persons, things, etc.; particular: I will now discuss the respective merits of the candidates.
- selective — having the function or power of selecting; making a selection.
- subjective — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- ineffective — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
- introspective — characterized by introspection, the act or process of looking into oneself.
- irrespective — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- anti-infective — of or relating to a substance used in the treatment of an infection.
- linear perspective — a mathematical system for representing three-dimensional objects and space on a two-dimensional surface by means of intersecting lines that are drawn vertically and horizontally and that radiate from one point (one-point perspective) two points (two-point perspective) or several points on a horizon line as perceived by a viewer imagined in an arbitrarily fixed position.