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Accessive
Accessive Ac*ces"sive, a.
Additional.
AggressiveAggressive 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. AggressivelyAggressive 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. AggressivenessAggressive 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.
DepressiveDepressive De*press"ive, a.
Able or tending to depress or cast down. --
De*press"ive*ness, n. DepressivenessDepressive 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.
ExcessiveExcessive 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. ExcessivelyExcessive 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. ExcessivenessExcessive 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. ExpressiveExpressive 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. ExpressivelyExpressive 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. ExpressivenessExpressive 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.
ImpressiveImpressive 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. ImpressivelyImpressive 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. ImpressivenessImpressive 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. ImprogressiveImprogressive Im`pro*gress"ive, a.
Not progressive. --De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. ImprogressivelyImprogressive 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.
OppressiveOppressive 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. OppressivelyOppressive 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- "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...
- genitive, illative, locative, elative, comitative, and
essive, but
number is not
distinguished in the
essive.
Inflection is
essentially agglutinative, but the...
-
essive, abessive, and comitative, with the case and
number of the
adjective always agreeing with that of the noun (except in the terminative,
essive,...
- of "to/in/from a state"
series consisting of the
translative case, the
essive case and the
exessive case. The
exessive case has been
described in Estonian...
- nominative, genitive-accusative, partitive, dative-illative, locative,
essive,
comitative and abessive. Case and
number are
expressed by a combination...
-
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"...
