AFFIRMATIVES | • affirmatives n. Plural of affirmative. • AFFIRMATIVE n. an expression of affirmation or assent. |
CONFIRMATIVE | • confirmative adj. That serves to confirm. • CONFIRMATIVE adj. tending to confirm. |
FAVOURITISMS | • favouritisms n. Plural of favouritism. • FAVOURITISM n. the state of having favourites. |
FERMENTATIVE | • fermentative adj. Of, pertaining to, causing or undergoing fermentation. • FERMENTATIVE adj. causing or consisting of fermentation. |
FLUVIOMARINE | • fluviomarine adj. (Geology) Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea. • FLUVIOMARINE adj. of deposits, formed by joint action of the sea and a river or stream. |
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. |
OVERFAMILIAR | • overfamiliar adj. Common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying. • overfamiliar adj. (Used with “with”) So acquainted with something, that one doesn’t notice it, or is annoyed by it. • overfamiliar adj. Overly friendly or intimate. |
OVERFREEDOMS | • OVERFREEDOM n. an excess of freedom. |
OVERINFORMED | • overinformed v. Simple past tense and past participle of overinform. • OVERINFORM v. to inform excessively. |
OVERSIMPLIFY | • oversimplify v. To explain or present something in a way that excludes important information for the sake of brevity… • OVERSIMPLIFY v. to simplify to such an extent as to bring about distortion, misunderstanding, or error. |
PERFORMATIVE | • performative adj. (Philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said. • performative adj. Being done as a performance in order to create an impression. • performative n. A performative utterance. |
PREFORMATIVE | • preformative n. Chiefly in Semitic languages: a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word. • preformative adj. Of or pertaining to preformation. • preformative adj. Of a thing: forming or affecting something that comes later. |
PULVILLIFORM | • pulvilliform adj. Resembling a pulvillus. • PULVILLIFORM adj. shaped like a cushion. |