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adventive

UK/ədˈvɛntɪv/US/ədˈvɛntɪv/

adventive adjective: accidental.

Adjective

adventive (comparative more adventive, superlative most adventive)

  1. Accidental.
  2. (archaic) Adventitious.
    • For Hvmane Knovvledge, Which Concernes the mind, it hath two parts, the one that enquireth of The Svbstance, Or Natvre Of The Sovle Or Mind; The other, that enquireth of the Facvlties Or Fvnctions Thereof: vnto the firſt of theſe, the conſiderations of the Originall of the ſoule, whether it be...1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for...
  3. Of a plant: not native, but introduced by humans to a place and since naturalized.

Noun

adventive (plural adventives)

  1. A non-native plant that has become naturalized.
    • Such interlopers are known as exotics, adventives, or aliens, all terms that may be considered synonymous with "nasty.1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader

adventive meaning in Tamil and Bengali

adventive in Tamil

புதிய, வெளியாள், வெளிப்பொருள், புறமிருந்து வருகிற, நன்கு நிலைபெறாத

adventive in Bengali

স্থানীয় নয়, অন্য অঞ্চল থেকে আগত

Forms of adventive

Adjective
comparativemore adventive
superlativemost adventive
Noun
pluraladventives

Origin of adventive

Borrowed from Latin adventīvus, from adveniō (“to come (to)”) + -īvus (verbal-adjective suffix).

Words formed from adventive

Questions about adventive

What does adventive mean?
Adventive means accidental.
What is adventive in Tamil?
Adventive in Tamil is புதிய, வெளியாள், வெளிப்பொருள். See Adventive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adventive?
Adventive can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce adventive?
Adventive is pronounced /ədˈvɛntɪv/ (UK).

Words near adventive in the dictionary

  1. adventition
  2. adventitions
  3. adventitious
  4. adventitiously
  5. adventitiousness
  6. adventive
  7. adventive species
  8. adventively
  9. adventives
  10. adventral
  11. advents

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adventive (page history and authors); adventive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adventive (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

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