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captived

captived is the simple past and past participle of captive.

Meaning of captive

Verb

captive (third-person singular simple present captives, present participle captiving, simple past and past participle captived)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To capture; to take captive.

See all 8 meanings of captive

Adjective

captived (comparative more captived, superlative most captived)

  1. (obsolete) Captured; captive.
    • But the captiv'd Acrasia he sent, / Because of traveill long, a nigher way [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of captived

comparativemore captived
superlativemost captived

Origin of captived

From captive + -ed.

Words formed from captived

Questions about captived

What does captived mean?
Captived means captured; captive.
What is captived the simple past and past participle of?
Captived is the simple past and past participle of captive.
What part of speech is captived?
Captived is an adjective.

Words near captived in the dictionary

  1. captive candidates
  2. captive nation
  3. captive nations
  4. captive portal
  5. captive portals
  6. captived
  7. captively
  8. captives
  9. captiving
  10. captivities
  11. captivity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: captived (page history and authors); captive (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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