Words That Rhyme With Expensive
191 rhymes for "expensive" (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
- "expensive" is easy to rhyme: extensive, defensive, intensive and offensive 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 excessive, aggressive and impressive.
- For rap, multisyllable matches like prospective, respective and suspended carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for expensive (9)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
3 syllables
- extensive
- defensive
- intensive
- offensive
2 syllables
- pensive
4+ syllables
- comprehensive
- apprehensive
- inexpensive
- inoffensive
Multisyllable rhymes for expensive (120)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
3 syllables
- prospective
- respective
- suspended
- suspending
- appendix
- dependence
- detective
- incentive
- suspension
- attentive
- dispensing
- expended
- inventive
- preventive
- prospectus
- protective
- quintessence
- repentance
- suggestive
- attention
- depended
- depending
- effective
- expected
- expecting
- expressing
- extended
- extending
- extension
- suspected
- suspecting
- agenda
- appended
- assessing
- attendance
- collective
- compressing
- condensing
- contention
- defective
- dependent
- depressing
- distressing
- impending
- impressing
- inspected
- inspecting
- inspection
- objective
- obsessing
- oppressing
- respected
- selective
- subjective
- suppressing
- tremendous
- invective
- addressing
- affected
- affecting
- apparent
- attempted
- attempting
- attended
- attending
- comparing
- convention
- detected
- detecting
- develop
- embarrass
- exception
- expression
- impression
- intended
- intending
- intention
- invented
- inventing
- objected
- objecting
- objection
- potential
- prevented
- preventing
- protected
- protecting
- protection
- reception
- rejected
- rejecting
- requested
- requesting
- successful
- suggested
- suggesting
- unpleasant
- upsetting
- dimension
- invention
4+ syllables
- irrespective
- introspective
- retrospective
- consequences
- independence
- disincentive
- interdependence
- inattentive
- independent
- ineffective
- unexpected
- unsuspecting
- accidental
- arithmetic
- documented
- implemented
- implementing
- recommended
- recommending
- alphabetic
Near rhymes for expensive (62)
Slant rhymes: the same vowel sound with a different consonant.
3 syllables
- excessive
- aggressive
- impressive
- successive
- expressive
- obsessive
- oppressive
- possessive
- progressive
- reflexive
- repressive
- progressives
- addresses
- expresses
- assesses
- consensus
- contentious
- depresses
- distresses
- expenses
- impresses
- obsesses
- offenses
- oppresses
- possesses
- pretentious
- suppresses
- caresses
- commences
- confesses
- defenseless
- defenses
- digresses
- dispenses
- excesses
- perplexes
- pretenses
- professes
- successes
- transgresses
- prosthesis
2 syllables
- guesses
- presses
- blesses
- dresses
- lenses
- messes
- senses
- sexes
- stresses
- census
- fences
- flexes
- senseless
- vexes
- yeses
- exes
4+ syllables
- unimpressive
- coalesces
- conscientious
- unpretentious
- preadolescence
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Questions about rhymes for expensive
What rhymes with expensive?
Common perfect rhymes for expensive include extensive, defensive, intensive, offensive, pensive, comprehensive, apprehensive and inexpensive. This page lists 191 rhymes in total, including near and multisyllable rhymes.
What is a near rhyme for expensive?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of expensive but change a consonant. Good ones include excessive, aggressive, impressive, successive, expressive and obsessive.
How many syllables are in expensive?
Expensive 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.