Rhymes with impressive
im·pres·sive
I i Three-syllable rhymes
- aggressive — An aggressive person or animal has a quality of anger and determination that makes them ready to attack other people.
- depressive — Depressive means relating to depression or to being depressed.
- excessive — More than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate.
- expressive — Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
- obsessive — being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession: an obsessive fear of illness.
- oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- possessive — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- recessive — tending to go, move, or slant back; receding.
- regressive — regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.
- repressive — tending or serving to repress: repressive laws.
- successive — following in order or in uninterrupted sequence; consecutive: three successive days.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- past progressive — a verb form consisting of an auxiliary be in the past tense followed by a present participle and used especially to indicate that an action or event was incomplete or in progress at a point of reference in the past, as was sleeping in I was sleeping when the phone rang.
- unimpressive — having the ability to impress the mind; arousing admiration, awe, respect, etc.; moving; admirable: an impressive ceremony; an impressive appearance.