AUTHORITATIVE | • authoritative adj. Arising or originating from a figure of authority. • authoritative adj. Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority. • authoritative adj. Having a commanding style. |
AUTHORITATIVELY | • authoritatively adv. In an authoritative manner, being worthy of trust. • AUTHORITATIVE adv. having or proceeding from authority. |
COHORTATIVE | • cohortative adj. (Grammar, of a verb) Inflected to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire… • cohortative adj. Encouraging. • cohortative n. (Grammar) The cohortative mood. |
COHORTATIVES | • cohortatives n. Plural of cohortative. • COHORTATIVE n. in Hebrew grammar, a lengthened form of the imperfect. |
DEHORTATIVE | • dehortative adj. Dissuasive. • DEHORTATIVE adj. dissuasive, also DEHORTATORY. |
EXHORTATIVE | • exhortative adj. (Comparable) Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner. • exhortative adj. (Grammar, not comparable) Inflected hortative verb form that a speaker uses to avidly encourage a listener. • exhortative n. The exhortative mood. |
HETERONORMATIVE | • heteronormative adj. Of or pertaining to the practices and institutions that privilege or value heterosexuality, heterosexual… • HETERONORMATIVE adj. regarding heterosexual relationships as the social norm. |
HORTATIVE | • hortative adj. (Comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging. • hortative adj. (Grammar, not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong… • hortative n. (Grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement. |
HORTATIVELY | • hortatively adv. In a hortative way. • HORTATIVE adv. giving exhortation; advisory, also HORTATORY. |
HYPOVENTILATION | • hypoventilation n. (Medicine) Respiratory depression, occurring when ventilation is inadequate to perform the necessary… • HYPOVENTILATION n. abnormally decreased speed and depth of breathing. |
OUTFANGTHIEVES | • OUTFANGTHIEF n. (historical) the right of judging and fining thieves pursued and brought back from outside one's own jurisdiction. |
OVERTHWARTING | • OVERTHWART v. to lie athwart. |
PHOTOACTIVE | • photoactive adj. Able to convert the energy of light into electricity via photoelectricity. • photoactive adj. Able to react chemically under the influence of light. • PHOTOACTIVE adj. affected physically or chemically by light or other radiation. |
PHOTONEGATIVE | • photonegative adj. (Biology) having a negative phototropic or phototactic response; repelled by light. • PHOTONEGATIVE adj. exhibiting negative phototropism or phototaxis. |
PHOTOOXIDATIVE | • photooxidative adj. That causes, or undergoes photooxidation. • PHOTOOXIDATIVE adj. relating to photooxidation. |
PHOTOREACTIVE | • photoreactive adj. That participates in, or initiates a photoreaction. • PHOTOREACTIVE adj. reacting to light. |
PHOTOREFRACTIVE | • photorefractive adj. (Physics) of or relating to a change in refractive index in the presence of light. • PHOTOREFRACTIVE adj. designating or relating to surgical procedures in which a laser is used to reshape the cornea and correct refractive errors such as myopia or astigmatism; esp. in photorefractive keratectomy. |
STAKHANOVITE | • Stakhanovite n. (Historical) An extremely productive or hard-working worker, especially in the former USSR, who may… • Stakhanovite adj. Pertaining to a Stakhanovite; heroically hard-working. • STAKHANOVITE n. a superlative worker. |
STAKHANOVITES | • Stakhanovites n. Plural of Stakhanovite. • STAKHANOVITE n. a superlative worker. |
UNAUTHORITATIVE | • unauthoritative adj. Not authoritative. • UNAUTHORITATIVE adj. not authoritative. |