COMPARATIVES | • comparatives n. Plural of comparative. • COMPARATIVE n. one that compares with another esp. on equal footing. |
COMPELLATIVE | • compellative n. (Grammar) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative. • COMPELLATIVE n. compellation. |
COMPENSATIVE | • compensative adj. That compensates for something; compensatory. • compensative n. (Obsolete) compensation. • COMPENSATIVE adj. relating to compensation, also COMPENSATIONAL. |
COMPLICATIVE | • complicative adj. Having a tendency to complicate. • COMPLICATIVE adj. tending to complicate. |
COMPULSATIVE | • compulsative adj. (Obsolete) compulsatory; employing force or constraint. • COMPULSATIVE adj. (Shakespeare) compulsory, also COMPULSATORY. |
COMPULSIVELY | • compulsively adv. In a compulsive manner; obsessively. • COMPULSIVE adv. driven by an ungovernable impulse. |
CONSUMPTIVES | • consumptives n. Plural of consumptive. • CONSUMPTIVE n. a person affected with consumption. |
EMANCIPATIVE | • emancipative adj. Emancipatory. • EMANCIPATIVE adj. serving to emancipate. |
HYPOVOLAEMIC | • hypovolaemic adj. Alternative form of hypovolemic. |
IMPERCEPTIVE | • imperceptive adj. Unable to perceive. • IMPERCEPTIVE adj. not perceptive. |
IMPERFECTIVE | • imperfective adj. Of, relating to or having the properties of the imperfective aspect. • imperfective n. The imperfective aspect; a verb having this aspect. • IMPERFECTIVE adj. expressing action as incomplete or without reference to completion or as reiterated. |
IMPROVIDENCE | • improvidence n. The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift. • IMPROVIDENCE n. the state of being improvident. |
MISPERCEIVED | • misperceived v. Simple past tense and past participle of misperceive. • MISPERCEIVE v. to perceive wrongly. |
MISPERCEIVES | • misperceives v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misperceive. • MISPERCEIVE v. to perceive wrongly. |
OVERCOMPRESS | • overcompress v. (Transitive) To compress too much. • OVERCOMPRESS v. to compress excessively. |
OVEREMPHATIC | • overemphatic adj. Excessively emphatic, particularly in musical or theatrical interpretation. • OVEREMPHATIC adj. excessively emphatic. |
PLUVIOMETRIC | • pluviometric adj. Related to pluviometry. • PLUVIOMETRIC adj. relating to pluviometry, the measurement of rainfall, also PLUVIOMETRICAL. |