affective
/əˈfɛktɪv/
affective adjective: relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
Adjective
affective (comparative more affective, superlative most affective)
affective meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Persian
affective in Tamil
- உவ்ர்ச்சி சார்ந்த
affective in Malayalam
- അഫക്റ്റീവ്
affective in Kannada
- ತಲ್ಲಣದ, ಬೇಗುದಿಯ, ಅನಿಸಿಕೆಯ
affective in Persian
- relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
- عاطفی 'âtefi
Examples of affective in a sentence
- The conative, as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.
- The nine transrelative cases are the thematic, instrumental, absolutive, affective, stimulative, effectuative, ergative, dative, and inducive.
- As Dewey would argue, the problem-solver becomes alert to aesthetic responses through affective states.
Forms of affective
| comparative | more affective |
|---|---|
| superlative | most affective |
Origin of affective
From Medieval Latin affectivus, from Latin affectus, past participle of afficere (“to affect”). By surface analysis, affect + -ive.
Words formed from affective
Phrases with affective
Words that rhyme with affective
- projective
- subjective
- effective
- objective
- prospective
- reflective
- collective
- connective
- defective
- directive
- respective
- selective
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- injective
- detective
- elective
- irrespective
- perfective
- retrospective
- bijective
- corrective
- erective
- ineffective
- inflective
- intellective
- intersubjective
- protective
- refective
- advective
- convective
- deflective
- ejective
- imperfective
- infective
- inspective
- introspective
- overprotective
- rejective
- surjective
- unreflective
- unselective
Questions about affective
- What does affective mean?
- Affective means relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
- What is affective in Tamil?
- Affective in Tamil is உவ்ர்ச்சி சார்ந்த. See Affective meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is affective?
- Affective is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce affective?
- Affective is pronounced /əˈfɛktɪv/.
Words near affective in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: affective (page history and authors); affective (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); affective (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); affective (Kannada 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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