cursive
UK/ˈkɜːsɪv//ˈkɝsɪv/
cursive adjective: running; flowing.
Adjective
cursive (comparative more cursive, superlative most cursive)
- Running; flowing.
- Having successive letters joined together.
- Then Mambro handed me his manuscript, a sheaf of loose pages really, his cursive handwriting scrawled over them, the exaggerated tails of the f’s and the j’s, the distinct loop of the q.2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 269
- Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
- cursive aspect
- […] of the action or state of affairs expressed by the verb to the time of utterance; rather they express how the speaker regards the event: many grammarians distinguish between a constative aspect, in which an occurrence is simply registered as such, as something concluded, and a cursive aspect...1978, The Bible Translator, volume 29, United Bible Societies, page 158
Noun
cursive (countable and uncountable, plural cursives)
- A cursive character, letter or font.
- A manuscript written in cursive characters.
- Joined-up handwriting.
- Antonyms:
- printing
cursive meaning in Kannada, Malay, Indonesian and Vietnamese
cursive in Kannada
- ಕೂಡು
cursive in Malay
- having successive letters joined together
- berangkai
cursive in Indonesian
- having successive letters joined together
- kursif, miring
- manuscript
- tulisan sambung
- character
- huruf sambung, kursif
cursive in Vietnamese
- having successive letters joined together
- viết thảo
Antonyms of cursive
Forms of cursive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more cursive |
| superlative | most cursive |
| Noun | |
| plural | cursives |
Origin of cursive
Borrowed from Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin cursīvus, from Latin cursus.
Words formed from cursive
Words that rhyme with cursive
- recursive
- immersive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
- subversive
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- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- cyberdiscursive
- detersive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- perversive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- precursive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- reversive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
- superrecursive
Questions about cursive
- What does cursive mean?
- Cursive means running; flowing.
- What is cursive in Kannada?
- Cursive in Kannada is ಕೂಡು. See Cursive meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is cursive?
- Cursive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce cursive?
- Cursive is pronounced /ˈkɝsɪv/ (US).
Words near cursive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cursive (page history and authors); cursive (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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