Power Suffixes for Eleventh Grade Students: -ive

Learn these words formed with the suffix -ive, meaning "inclined to; quality of; that which."
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  1. impressive
    making a strong or vivid mental image
  2. instinctive
    unthinking
  3. creative
    having the ability or power to invent or make something
  4. objective
    the goal intended to be attained
  5. competitive
    involving rivalry over something
  6. explosive
    a substance that releases great energy when heated or struck
  7. suggestive
    tending to imply
  8. instructive
    serving to enlighten or inform
  9. protective
    intended or adapted to provide safety of some kind
  10. reflective
    capable of physically throwing back light or sound
  11. submissive
    inclined or willing to give in to orders or wishes of others
  12. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
Created on Fri Jun 06 13:02:27 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jun 06 18:42:24 EDT 2025)

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