Words that rhyme with comprehensive
Top rhymes for comprehensive
expensive, extensive, offensive and defensive
11 common words rhyme with comprehensive. The most common are expensive, extensive, offensive and defensive.
Perfect rhymes for comprehensive
2 syllables
4 syllables
- inexpensive
- apprehensive
- inoffensive
- hypertensive
5 syllables
- counteroffensive
Near rhymes for comprehensive
These share the stressed vowel or the ending but not every sound. Songwriters call them slant rhymes.
- consequences
- expenses
- incentive
- senses
- defenses
- fences
- offenses
- preventive
- attentive
- inventive
- commences
- inferences
- pretenses
- biosciences
- dispenses
- inattentive
- disincentive
- impressive
- progressive
- aggressive
- census
- excessive
- consensus
- successive
- oppressive
- expressive
- obsessive
- expansive
- depressive
- possessive
- repressive
- regressive
- recessive
- reflexive
- redemptive
- unimpressive
- offensives
- endive
- attention
- potential
How comprehensive sounds
| Pronunciation | /ˌkɑmpɹiˈhɛnsɪv/ |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (com-pre-HEN-sive) |
| Stress pattern | da-da-DUM-da |
| Rhyme sound | -ɛnsɪv |
Comprehensive has four syllables, with the stress on the third. Rhymes must match from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
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Questions
- What rhymes with comprehensive?
- The most common rhymes for comprehensive are expensive, extensive, offensive, defensive, intensive and inexpensive.
- How many words rhyme with comprehensive?
- We found 11 common perfect rhymes for comprehensive, plus 40 near rhymes.
- How many syllables are in comprehensive?
- Comprehensive has four syllables, with the stress on the third.