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altercative

altercative adjective: characterized by altercation.

Adjective

altercative (comparative more altercative, superlative most altercative)

  1. (rare) Characterized by altercation.
    • I know some of the Commentators have imagined, that Mr. Dryden, in the Altercative Scene between Cleopatra and Octavia […] is much beholden to our Author.1731, Henry Fielding, The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, London: J. Roberts, Act II, Scene 7, p. 30, footnote z
    • His cab, delayed by a red newspaper cart, jammed in altercative contact with a dray full of brown barrels, paused in Cannon Street.1903, E. Nesbit, “Rounding Off a Scene”, in The Literary Sense, New York and London: Macmillan, page 14

altercative meaning in Tamil and Urdu

altercative in Tamil

ஓயாது வாய்ச்சண்டையிடுகிற

altercative in Urdu

جھگڑالو, جھگڑا کرنے والا, لڑنے والا, انتشار پھیلانے والا

Forms of altercative

comparativemore altercative
superlativemost altercative

Origin of altercative

See altercation.

Questions about altercative

What does altercative mean?
Altercative means characterized by altercation.
What is altercative in Tamil?
Altercative in Tamil is ஓயாது வாய்ச்சண்டையிடுகிற. See Altercative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is altercative?
Altercative is an adjective.

Words near altercative in the dictionary

  1. altercated
  2. altercates
  3. altercating
  4. altercation
  5. altercations
  6. altercative
  7. altercator
  8. altercators
  9. altered
  10. altered or changed
  11. altered scale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: altercative (page history and authors); altercative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); altercative (Urdu 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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