Words That Rhyme With Excessive
190 rhymes for "excessive" (3 syllables): perfect rhymes, multisyllable rhymes and near rhymes, each grouped by syllable count with the most common words first. Click a linked word to see what rhymes with it.
How to use this rhyme
- "excessive" is easy to rhyme: aggressive, impressive, successive and expressive all share its ending sound, so you can hold one rhyme across a whole verse.
- For a softer, less predictable sound, try a near rhyme such as expensive, extensive and defensive.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like incentive, deceptive and receptive carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for excessive (10)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
3 syllables
- aggressive
- impressive
- successive
- expressive
- obsessive
- oppressive
- possessive
- progressive
- repressive
4+ syllables
- unimpressive
Multisyllable rhymes for excessive (120)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
3 syllables
- incentive
- deceptive
- receptive
- effective
- exception
- assessing
- defective
- detective
- obsessing
- obsession
- possessing
- succession
- attentive
- concession
- confessing
- connective
- incessant
- invective
- inventive
- placenta
- preventive
- procession
- professing
- protective
- quintessence
- recession
- reflective
- secession
- addressing
- convention
- expressing
- extended
- extending
- extension
- presenting
- reception
- successful
- upsetting
- affection
- ascended
- ascending
- assessment
- attendance
- collective
- compressing
- conception
- condensing
- consented
- consenting
- contentious
- depressing
- descended
- descending
- distressing
- eccentric
- excepted
- impressing
- infection
- objective
- oppressing
- pathetic
- possession
- profession
- progressing
- prospective
- resemblance
- respective
- selective
- subjective
- suppressing
- affected
- affecting
- attempted
- attempting
- attended
- attending
- attention
- connected
- connecting
- connection
- detected
- detecting
- develop
- expected
- expecting
- expression
- intended
- intending
- invented
- inventing
- prevented
- preventing
- protected
- protecting
- protection
- reflected
- reflecting
- reflection
- requested
- requesting
- suggested
- suggesting
- suspected
- suspecting
- suspended
- suspending
- unpleasant
4+ syllables
- contraceptive
- disincentive
- consequences
- ineffective
- represented
- representing
- apathetic
- contraception
- irrespective
- misrepresented
- misrepresenting
- sympathetic
- unsuccessful
Near rhymes for excessive (60)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
3 syllables
- expensive
- extensive
- defensive
- intensive
- offensive
- reflexive
- offensives
- addresses
- expresses
- assesses
- consensus
- depresses
- distresses
- expenses
- impresses
- obsesses
- offenses
- oppresses
- possesses
- refreshes
- suppresses
- caresses
- commences
- confesses
- defenses
- digresses
- dispenses
- excesses
- perplexes
- pretenses
- professes
- successes
- transgresses
- prosthesis
2 syllables
- pensive
- guesses
- presses
- blesses
- dresses
- lenses
- messes
- precious
- preface
- senses
- sexes
- stresses
- census
- crevice
- fences
- flexes
- meshes
- vexes
- yeses
- exes
4+ syllables
- comprehensive
- apprehensive
- inexpensive
- inoffensive
- coalesces
- semiprecious
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Questions about rhymes for excessive
What rhymes with excessive?
Common perfect rhymes for excessive include aggressive, impressive, successive, expressive, obsessive, oppressive, possessive and progressive. This page lists 190 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for excessive?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of excessive but change a consonant. Good ones include expensive, extensive, defensive, intensive, offensive and reflexive.
How many syllables are in excessive?
Excessive has 3 syllables in standard US pronunciation.
Rhymes use US pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University) and the SCOWL word lists (Kevin Atkinson). Offensive words are left out.