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Accessive
Accessive Ac*ces"sive, a. Additional.
Aggressive
Aggressive Ag*gres"sive, a. [Cf. F. agressif.] Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n. No aggressive movement was made. --Macaulay.
Aggressively
Aggressive Ag*gres"sive, a. [Cf. F. agressif.] Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n. No aggressive movement was made. --Macaulay.
Aggressiveness
Aggressive Ag*gres"sive, a. [Cf. F. agressif.] Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n. No aggressive movement was made. --Macaulay.
Compressive
Compressive Com*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. compressif.] Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.
Concessive
Concessive Con*ces"sive, a. [L. concessivus.] Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction. --Lowth.
Concessively
Concessively Con*ces"sive*ly, adv. By way of concession.
Congressive
Congressive Con*gres"sive, a. Encountering, or coming together. --Sir T. Browne.
Depressive
Depressive De*press"ive, a. Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.
Depressiveness
Depressive De*press"ive, a. Able or tending to depress or cast down. -- De*press"ive*ness, n.
Digressive
Digressive Di*gress"ive, a. [Cf. F. digressif.] Departing from the main subject; partaking of the nature of digression. --Johnson.
Digressively
Digressively Di*gress"ive*ly, adv. By way of digression.
Excessive
Excessive Ex*cess"ive, a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak. Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. -Ex*cess"ive*ness, n.
Excessively
Excessive Ex*cess"ive, a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak. Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. -Ex*cess"ive*ness, n.
Excessiveness
Excessive Ex*cess"ive, a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak. Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. -Ex*cess"ive*ness, n.
Expressive
Expressive Ex*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. expressif.] 1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. --Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words. You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them. --Shak. Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke. --Littelton. -- Ex*press"ive*ly,adv. -- Ex*press"ive*ness,n.
Expressively
Expressive Ex*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. expressif.] 1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. --Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words. You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them. --Shak. Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke. --Littelton. -- Ex*press"ive*ly,adv. -- Ex*press"ive*ness,n.
Expressiveness
Expressive Ex*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. expressif.] 1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. --Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words. You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them. --Shak. Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke. --Littelton. -- Ex*press"ive*ly,adv. -- Ex*press"ive*ness,n.
Guessive
Guessive Guess"ive, a. Conjectural. [Obs.] --Feltham.
Impressive
Impressive Im*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. impressif.] 1. Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. 2. Capable of being impressed. [Obs.] --Drayton. - Im*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press"ive*ness, n.
Impressively
Impressive Im*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. impressif.] 1. Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. 2. Capable of being impressed. [Obs.] --Drayton. - Im*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press"ive*ness, n.
Impressiveness
Impressive Im*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. impressif.] 1. Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. 2. Capable of being impressed. [Obs.] --Drayton. - Im*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Im*press"ive*ness, n.
Improgressive
Improgressive Im`pro*gress"ive, a. Not progressive. --De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.
Improgressively
Improgressive Im`pro*gress"ive, a. Not progressive. --De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.
Inexpressive
Inexpressive In`ex*press"ive, a. 1. Inexpressible. [R.] 2. Without expression or meaning; not expressive; dull; unintelligent; as, an inexpressive countenance.
Inexpressiveness
Inexpressiveness In`ex*press"ive*ness, n. The state or quality of being inexpressive.
Inoppressive
Inoppressive In`op*press"ive, a. Not oppressive or burdensome. --O. Wolcott.
Insuppressive
Insuppressive In`sup*press"ive, a. Insuppressible. [Obs.] ``The insuppressive mettle of our spirits.' --Shak.
Oppressive
Oppressive Op*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. oppressif.] 1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. --Macaulay. 2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. 3. Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe. To ease the soul of one oppressive weight. --Pope. -- Op*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Op*press"ive*ness, n.
Oppressively
Oppressive Op*press"ive, a. [Cf. F. oppressif.] 1. Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. --Macaulay. 2. Using oppression; tyrannical; as, oppressive authority or commands. 3. Heavy; overpowering; hard to be borne; as, oppressive grief or woe. To ease the soul of one oppressive weight. --Pope. -- Op*press"ive*ly, adv. -- Op*press"ive*ness, n.

Meaning of Essive from wikipedia

- In grammar, the essive case, or similaris case, (abbreviated ESS) is a grammatical case. The essive case on a noun can express it as a definite period...
- The essive-modal case is a case in the Hungarian language that expresses either the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has (essive...
- the strong vowel stem comes from the essive singular. NB the consonant stem used to be quite common in the essive, and some nouns and adjectives still...
- In the Hungarian language the essive-formal case or formative case can be viewed as combining an essive case and a formal case, and it can express the...
- genitive are usually identical. There is no singular-plural distinction in the essive, so for example mánnán is interpreted as either "as a child" or "as children"...
- essive, abessive, and comitative, with the case and number of the adjective always agreeing with that of the noun (except in the terminative, essive,...
- genitive, illative, locative, elative, comitative, and essive, but number is not distinguished in the essive. Inflection is essentially agglutinative, but the...
- Abkhaz and Georgian with a function similar to that of the translative and essive cases in Finnic languages. It is also featured in Udmurt. The term is sometimes...
- nominative, genitive-accusative, partitive, dative-illative, locative, essive, comitative and abessive. Case and number are expressed by a combination...
- "becoming X " or "change to X ". In Finnish, it is the counterpart of the essive case, with the basic meaning of a change of state. It is also used for expressing...