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contortive

contortive adjective: showing contortion.

Adjective

contortive (comparative more contortive, superlative most contortive)

  1. Showing contortion.
    • (There are accounts of the contortive skills of mime artists in ancient Rome.)2009 September 12, Alastair Macaulay, “One Man’s Wordless Battle With Claustrophobia”, in New York Times

Forms of contortive

comparativemore contortive
superlativemost contortive

Origin of contortive

From contort + -ive.

Questions about contortive

What does contortive mean?
Contortive means showing contortion.
What part of speech is contortive?
Contortive is an adjective.

Words near contortive in the dictionary

  1. contortionism
  2. contortionist
  3. contortionistic
  4. contortionists
  5. contortions
  6. contortive
  7. contortly
  8. contortrostatin
  9. contorts
  10. contortuplicate
  11. contortuplicated

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