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descensive

descensive adjective: tending to descend or move downward; descending.

Adjective

descensive (comparative more descensive, superlative most descensive)

  1. Tending to descend or move downward; descending.
    • the descensive Motion describing the Parabola1735, Isaac Barrow, Geometrical Lectures

Forms of descensive

comparativemore descensive
superlativemost descensive

Questions about descensive

What does descensive mean?
Descensive means tending to descend or move downward; descending.
What part of speech is descensive?
Descensive is an adjective.

Words near descensive in the dictionary

  1. descends on
  2. descends upon
  3. descension
  4. descensional
  5. descensions
  6. descensive
  7. descensories
  8. descensory
  9. descent
  10. descent group
  11. descent groups

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