FACTIVE | • factive adj. (Grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true. • factive adj. (Epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths. • factive n. (Grammar) A factive verb. |
FAVRILE | • favrile n. (Art) An iridescent form of Tiffany glass. • FAVRILE n. a type of iridescent glassware developed in America at the turn of the 20th century by L. C. Tiffany. |
FESTIVE | • festive adj. Having the atmosphere, decoration, or attitude of a festival, holiday, or celebration. • festive adj. In the mood to celebrate. • FESTIVE adj. befitting a festival. |
FICTIVE | • fictive adj. Having the characteristics of fiction: fictional. • fictive adj. Resulting from imaginative creation: fanciful or invented. • fictive adj. Being feigned, ingenuine or unreal. |
FISSIVE | • fissive adj. Of or pertaining to fission. • FISSIVE adj. pertaining to nuclear fission. |
FIVEPIN | • fivepin n. Any of the bottle-shaped targets with rubber rings around them that are used in fivepin bowling. • five-pin n. (Bowling) five-pin bowling (played only in Canada). • FIVEPIN adj. used for playing fivepins. |
FLAVINE | • flavine n. Alternative spelling of flavin. • FLAVINE n. a yellow dye made from the bark of the dyer's oak, also FLAVIN. |
FLIVVER | • flivver n. (Colloquial, dated, North American) An automobile, particularly one which is old and inexpensive. • FLIVVER n. a small, cheap, usually old automobile. |
FLUXIVE | • fluxive adj. Flowing; lacking solidity. • FLUXIVE adj. (Shakespeare) flowing with tears. |
FORGIVE | • forgive v. (Transitive) To pardon; to waive any negative feeling or desire for punishment, retribution, or compensation. • forgive v. (Intransitive) To accord forgiveness. • FORGIVE v. to pardon. |
FURTIVE | • furtive adj. Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy. • furtive adj. Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily. • furtive adj. Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy. |
IVYLEAF | • ivy-leaf n. The leaf of the ivy. • IVYLEAF adj. as in ivyleaf geranium, a geranium plant, with trailing leaves and white, pink, red, or violet flowers. |
OVERFIT | • overfit v. (Statistics) To use a statistical model that has too many parameters relative to the size of the sample… • OVERFIT adj. excessively fit. |
VENEFIC | • venefic adj. (Archaic) poisonous; pertaining to poison or poisoning. • VENEFIC adj. acting by poison or potions or by sorcery, also VENEFICAL, VENEFICIOUS, VENEFICOUS. |
VERBIFY | • verbify v. (Transitive, nonstandard) To use a noun as a verb via anthimeria. • verbify v. (Transitive, nonstandard, slang) To derive a verb from a pre-existing noun. • VERBIFY v. to use as a verb. |
VERSIFY | • versify v. (Transitive, intransitive) to make or compose verses. • versify v. (Intransitive) to tell in verse; deal with in verse form. • versify v. (Intransitive) to turn (prose) into poetry; rewrite in verse form. |