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depictive

depictive adjective: of or pertaining to depiction.

Adjective

depictive (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to depiction.

Noun

depictive (plural depictives)

  1. A grammatical construction that indicates the state of a noun in relation to the action of a verb.
    • In this chapter, I address both the semantics of the Case-marking opposition in depictives in the East Slavic languages and also the syntax of depictive secondary predication in general.2007, Kylie R. Richardson, Case and Aspect in Slavic, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 111

Forms of depictive

pluraldepictives

Origin of depictive

From depict + -ive.

Words formed from depictive

Questions about depictive

What does depictive mean?
Depictive means of or pertaining to depiction.
What part of speech is depictive?
Depictive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near depictive in the dictionary

  1. depicters
  2. depicting
  3. depiction
  4. depictional
  5. depictions
  6. depictive
  7. depictively
  8. depictives
  9. depictivist
  10. depictment
  11. depictments

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