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contrafactive

contrafactive adjective: describing a verb whose object clause is taken to be false.

Adjective

contrafactive (not comparable)

  1. Describing a verb whose object clause is taken to be false.

Origin of contrafactive

From contra- + factive.

Questions about contrafactive

What does contrafactive mean?
Contrafactive means describing a verb whose object clause is taken to be false.
What part of speech is contrafactive?
Contrafactive is an adjective.

Words near contrafactive in the dictionary

  1. contradistinguisht
  2. contraexpectation
  3. contraexpectational
  4. contrafact
  5. contrafacta
  6. contrafactive
  7. contrafacts
  8. contrafactual
  9. contrafactum
  10. contrafagotti
  11. contrafagotto

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