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dissentive

dissentive adjective: disagreeing; inconsistent.

Adjective

dissentive (comparative more dissentive, superlative most dissentive)

  1. (obsolete) disagreeing; inconsistent
    • He is a Monster in Nature: for his Heart and Tongue, are Incongruous, and dissentive1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Forms of dissentive

comparativemore dissentive
superlativemost dissentive

Origin of dissentive

From dissent + -ive.

Questions about dissentive

What does dissentive mean?
Dissentive means disagreeing; inconsistent.
What part of speech is dissentive?
Dissentive is an adjective.

Words near dissentive in the dictionary

  1. dissention
  2. dissentions
  3. dissentious
  4. dissentiously
  5. dissentism
  6. dissentive
  7. dissentment
  8. dissentments
  9. dissents
  10. dissepiment
  11. dissepimental

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