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authoritive

authoritive is the misspelling of authoritative.

Meaning of authoritative

Adjective

authoritative (comparative more authoritative, superlative most authoritative)

  1. Arising or originating from a figure of authority.
    • The authoritative rules in this school come not from the headmaster but from the aged matron.
  2. Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority.
    • This book is the world's most authoritative guide to insect breeding habits.
  3. Having a commanding style.
    • He instructed us in that booming, authoritative voice of his.

Questions about authoritive

What is authoritive the misspelling of?
Authoritive is the misspelling of authoritative.

Words near authoritive in the dictionary

  1. authoritatively
  2. authoritativeness
  3. authoritativity
  4. authoritie
  5. authorities
  6. authoritive
  7. authority
  8. authority control
  9. authority figure
  10. authority figures
  11. authority issues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authoritive (page history and authors); authoritative (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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