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dictative

dictative adjective: dictatorial.

Adjective

dictative (comparative more dictative, superlative most dictative)

  1. dictatorial
    • The one principle is truly educational; the other is dictative. The one principle embodies the idea and fact of manly freedom; the other, the idea and fact of degrading tyranny.1851, Joshua Toulmin Smith, Local Self-government and Centralization, page 328

Forms of dictative

comparativemore dictative
superlativemost dictative

Words that rhyme with dictative

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Questions about dictative

What does dictative mean?
Dictative means dictatorial.
What part of speech is dictative?
Dictative is an adjective.

Words near dictative in the dictionary

  1. dictation
  2. dictation machine
  3. dictation machines
  4. dictational
  5. dictations
  6. dictative
  7. dictator
  8. dictatoress
  9. dictatoresses
  10. dictatorial
  11. dictatorialism

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