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anticausative

anticausative adjective: which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause.

Adjective

anticausative (not comparable)

  1. Which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause.

Noun

anticausative (plural anticausatives)

  1. A verb or construction of this kind.

Forms of anticausative

pluralanticausatives

Origin of anticausative

From anti- + causative.

Questions about anticausative

What does anticausative mean?
Anticausative means which shows an action affecting its subject, without indicating the cause.
What part of speech is anticausative?
Anticausative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near anticausative in the dictionary

  1. anticathodes
  2. anticatholic
  3. anticatholics
  4. anticattle
  5. anticausal
  6. anticausative
  7. anticausatives
  8. anticausativisation
  9. anticausativity
  10. anticausativization
  11. anticausotic

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