Words that rhyme with “essive”

17 rhymes for the “-essive” sound, like aggressive, excessive, expressive. These are prompt words from Verse vs Verse, the freestyle rap battle game: land on them at the end of your bars.

Words

• aggressive
• depressive
• digressive
• excessive
• expressive
• impressive
• obsessive
• oppressive
• passive-aggressive
• possessive
• progressive
• recessive
• regressive
• repressive
• restive
• successive
• transgressive

Use them in a freestyle

In Verse vs Verse, every bar of the beat ends on a word like these, and you have to rap your way to it in time. Words from the same family land on bars that rhyme, so a verse hangs together. Read how to play, or battle your friends online.

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