Thesaurus / exceptive
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synonyms for exceptive
- crucial
- dangerous
- decisive
- dire
- integral
- perilous
- pivotal
- precarious
- risky
- serious
- significant
- strategic
- urgent
- vital
- acute
- all-important
- bottom-line
- climacteric
- conclusive
- consequential
- deciding
- desperate
- determinative
- grave
- hairy
- hazardous
- high-priority
- momentous
- pressing
- weighty
- demanding
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
antonyms for exceptive
MOST RELEVANT
- certain
- inessential
- minor
- safe
- secure
- sure
- trivial
- unimportant
- unnecessary
- complimentary
- laudatory
- praising
- uncritical
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use exceptive in a sentence
Waking is an inferior exceptive kind of existence, into which she is dragged by the base exigencies of the world.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 450VARIOUSThis exceptive compliment to his skill was not so acceptable to the Doctor, whose passion boiled over at the new indignity.
THE O'DONOGHUECHARLES JAMES LEVERIs it not announced as a general maxim, to which there can be no exceptive case, Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof?
A LAMP TO THE PATHW. K. TWEEDIEWORDS RELATED TO EXCEPTIVE
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.