Words That Rhyme With Extensive
191 rhymes for "extensive" (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
- "extensive" is easy to rhyme: expensive, 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 attentive, extended and extending carry the rhyme across more than one syllable and make a line sound tighter.
Perfect rhymes for extensive (9)
The same sound from the last stressed vowel to the end.
3 syllables
- expensive
- defensive
- intensive
- offensive
2 syllables
- pensive
4+ syllables
- comprehensive
- apprehensive
- inexpensive
- inoffensive
Multisyllable rhymes for extensive (120)
The same vowel sounds across the last syllables, the way rap rhymes are stacked.
3 syllables
- attentive
- extended
- extending
- extension
- attendance
- condensing
- detective
- incentive
- prospective
- respective
- deceptive
- dispensing
- distended
- pretensions
- protective
- quintessence
- receptive
- suggestive
- attempted
- attempting
- attended
- attending
- attention
- detected
- detecting
- effective
- exception
- expected
- expecting
- expressing
- intended
- intending
- intention
- potential
- protected
- protecting
- protection
- successful
- suspended
- suspending
- agenda
- appendix
- ascended
- ascending
- assessing
- attendant
- collective
- consented
- consenting
- contention
- defective
- dependence
- descended
- descending
- detection
- distressing
- excepted
- inspection
- objective
- obsessing
- possessing
- selective
- subjective
- succession
- suspension
- connective
- detention
- reflective
- addressing
- connected
- connecting
- connection
- convention
- depended
- depending
- embarrass
- expression
- objected
- objecting
- objection
- presenting
- reception
- reflected
- reflecting
- reflection
- rejected
- rejecting
- requested
- requesting
- suggested
- suggesting
- suspected
- suspecting
- unpleasant
- upsetting
- appended
- conception
- depressing
- impending
- inspected
- obsession
- respected
4+ syllables
- inattentive
- consequences
- irrespective
- contraceptive
- delicatessen
- disincentive
- introspective
- retrospective
- independence
- ineffective
- unattended
- unexpected
- unsuccessful
- academic
- accidental
- independent
- represented
- representing
Near rhymes for extensive (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 extensive
What rhymes with extensive?
Common perfect rhymes for extensive include expensive, 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 extensive?
Near rhymes, also called slant rhymes, keep the vowel sound of extensive but change a consonant. Good ones include excessive, aggressive, impressive, successive, expressive and obsessive.
How many syllables are in extensive?
Extensive 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.