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aperitive

aperitive adjective: tending to open the bowels; aperient.

Adjective

aperitive (comparative more aperitive, superlative most aperitive)

  1. Tending to open the bowels; aperient.
  2. Serving as an apéritif: a pre-meal alcoholic drink.
    • She was looking, while so occupied, at the German group engaged in the garden, near by, with aperitive beer and disputation....1904, Henry James, Fordham Castle

Noun

aperitive (plural aperitives)

  1. Synonym of aperient.
    Synonyms:
    aperient

Synonyms of aperitive

Forms of aperitive

Adjective
comparativemore aperitive
superlativemost aperitive
Noun
pluralaperitives

Origin of aperitive

Borrowed from Medieval Latin aperitivus, from Late Latin apertivus, from Latin aperio. Doublet of apéritif, from French.

Questions about aperitive

What does aperitive mean?
Aperitive means tending to open the bowels; aperient.
What part of speech is aperitive?
Aperitive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near aperitive in the dictionary

  1. aperistalsis
  2. aperitif
  3. aperitif wine
  4. aperitif wines
  5. aperitifs
  6. aperitive
  7. aperitives
  8. aperitivo
  9. Apero
  10. Aperol
  11. Aperol spritz

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