Songwriting rhymes for defensive
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Perfect rhymes for defensive
- apprehensive
- pensive
- comprehensive
- offensive
- intensive
- extensive
- expensive
- inoffensive
- inexpensive
- tensive
- counteroffensive
- hypertensive
- commonsense of
- defence of
- defense of
- dense of
- dispense of
- expense of
- fence of
- frankincense of
- hence of
- immense of
- incense of
- intense of
- lense of
- offense of
- pence of
- pense of
- prensa of
- pretense of
- recompense of
- sensa of
- sense of
- spence of
- spens of
- suspense of
- tense of
- thence of
- whence of
Near rhymes for defensive
Near rhymes work great for songwriting, often giving a more interesting feel than perfect rhymes.
- getting
- telling
- this
- it's
- it
- is
- been
- with
- many
- give
- staring
- if
- begging
- letting
- any
- wearing
- will
- ready
- everything
- still
- spending
- already
- think
- thing
- heading
- very
- did
- messing
- ending
- pretending
- sending
- kiss
- anything
- things
- miss
- since
- every
- selfish
- paris
- shit
- tearing
- setting
- checking
- empty
- twenty
- waiting
- wish
- guessing
- til
- selling
- making
- his
- hit
- wedding
- saying
- heavy
- sing
- him
- lips
- skin
- else's
- burning
- stepping
- until
- texting
- bring
- even
- taking
- senses
- yelling
- playing
- big
- desperate
- electric
- its
- turning
- bit
- bitch
- fix
- sweating
- breaking
- drink
- pick
- till
- sick
- fear
- sit
- running
- barely
- win
- dressing
- stressing
- blessing
- forgetting
- sexy
- kill
- forgive
- chasing
- clear
- perspective
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