The present invention aims to provide an absorptive article improved so that, under a tensile force in a longitudinal direction so as to distance both ends from each other in the longitudinal direction, the article is sufficiently stretched. A sanitary napkin 10 as an example of pad-shaped absorbent article has a longitudinal direction A and a transverse direction B, opposite lateral ends 17 and opposite longitudinal sides 16 and includes a liquid-permeable topsheet 11 defining a skin-facing surface 11a, a backsheet 12 defining a garment-facing surface 12a and an absorbent body 13 between the top- and backsheets. The topsheet 11, the backsheet 12 and the absorbent body 13 respectively have an extensibility in the longitudinal direction A. The extensibility of at least one of the topsheet 11 and the backsheet 12 is an elastic extensibility. The sheets 11, 12 have first regions 29 extending across the absorbent body 13 in the transverse direction B to express an elastic extensibility and second regions 30 having an elastic extensibility in the longitudinal direction A lower than that of the first regions 29. The absorbent body 13 has a plurality of slits 33a, 33b extending in the transverse direction B and expresses an extensibility in the longitudinal direction A, when the article is subjected to tensile forces opposite in the longitudinal direction A so as to open the slits 33a, 33b and the absorbent body 13 is arranged so that at least one of the slits 33a, 33b overlaps with the first regions 29.
