crescive
crescive adjective: increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development.
Adjective
crescive (comparative more crescive, superlative most crescive)
- Increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development.
- And so the prince obscured his contemplation
Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,
Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,
Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- And so the prince obscured his contemplation
crescive meaning in Bengali
crescive in Bengali
- ক্রমবর্ধমান, বৃদ্ধিশীল
Forms of crescive
| comparative | more crescive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most crescive |
Origin of crescive
From Latin crēscere (“to increase”).
Words formed from crescive
Words that rhyme with crescive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
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- recessive
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
- future progressive
Questions about crescive
- What does crescive mean?
- Crescive means increasing or growing; marked by gradual spontaneous development.
- What is crescive in Bengali?
- Crescive in Bengali is ক্রমবর্ধমান, বৃদ্ধিশীল. See Crescive meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is crescive?
- Crescive is an adjective.
Words near crescive in the dictionary
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