Word.ws English Dictionary

abortively

/əˈbɔɹ.tɪv.li/

abortively adverb: in an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Adverb

abortively (comparative more abortively, superlative most abortively)

  1. In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Forms of abortively

comparativemore abortively
superlativemost abortively

Origin of abortively

From abortive + -ly.

Questions about abortively

What does abortively mean?
Abortively means in an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.
What part of speech is abortively?
Abortively is an adverb.
How do you pronounce abortively?
Abortively is pronounced /əˈbɔɹ.tɪv.li/ (US).

Words near abortively in the dictionary

  1. abortions
  2. abortist
  3. abortists
  4. abortive
  5. abortived
  6. abortively
  7. abortiveness
  8. abortivenesses
  9. abortives
  10. abortiving
  11. abortivity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: abortively (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-abortively.wav.

Cite this entry: “abortively.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/abortively. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.