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appointive

appointive adjective: of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.

Adjective

appointive

  1. Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
    • The constitution adopted at Oakmulgee provides for […] the machinery of government in which the governor and legislature are elective by the people. The judges are appointive by the governor […]1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government, Washington, D.C., page 8
    • It will be kind of nice, a year before your time, to be standing in the way of any appointive plums that may happen to fall; […]1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter XII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 164
    Antonyms:
    elective

Antonyms of appointive

Origin of appointive

From appoint + -ive.

Questions about appointive

What does appointive mean?
Appointive means of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
What part of speech is appointive?
Appointive is an adjective.

Words near appointive in the dictionary

  1. appointers
  2. appointes
  3. appointest
  4. appointeth
  5. appointing
  6. appointive
  7. appointment
  8. appointment diaries
  9. appointment diary
  10. appointment in Samarra
  11. appointment television

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