animadversive
animadversive adjective: having the ability to perceive, perceptive, attentive, percipient.
Adjective
animadversive (not comparable)
- Having the ability to perceive, perceptive, attentive, percipient.
- If soul were the material form of the body, it would be no better than the lower "Mundane sprite," which has no animadversive power either.1642, Henry More, “The Immortal Soul”, in A platonick song of the soul
- Characterized by disapproval, critical.
- The disgraceful conduct of the Returning Officer for the City of London Election has been the subject of animadversive conversation in our own particular circle.1843, “City Election,”, in Punch, volume 5, page 181
- The conduct of the medical practitioner was denounced by one of the jurors as "mercenary"; and a special verdict, animadversive of the practice (if it be a practice), was entered.1863, George Pound, “Reading Branch: President's Address,”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, page 33
animadversive meaning in Bengali
animadversive in Bengali
- উপলব্ধি করার ক্ষমতা সম্পন্ন, সংবেদনশীল, মনোযোগী, প্রত্যক্ষণশীল, অসম্মতি, সমালোচনামূলক বৈশিষ্ট্যপূর্ণ
Origin of animadversive
From classical Latin animadvers-, past participial stem of animadvertere (“animadvert”) + -ive. Compare post-classical Latin animadversīvus.
Words formed from animadversive
Words that rhyme with animadversive
- recursive
- cursive
- immersive
- adversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
- subversive
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- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- cyberdiscursive
- detersive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- perversive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- precursive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- reversive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
- superrecursive
Questions about animadversive
- What does animadversive mean?
- Animadversive means having the ability to perceive, perceptive, attentive, percipient.
- What is animadversive in Bengali?
- Animadversive in Bengali is উপলব্ধি করার ক্ষমতা সম্পন্ন, সংবেদনশীল, মনোযোগী. See Animadversive meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is animadversive?
- Animadversive is an adjective.
Words near animadversive in the dictionary
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