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durative

durative adjective: of or pertaining to duration.

Adjective

durative

  1. Of or pertaining to duration.
  2. Long-lasting.
    Synonyms:
    diuturnal
  3. Of or pertaining to the aspect of a verb that expresses continuing action; continuative. Part of the imperfective aspect, as opposed to the perfective aspect, of verbs.

Noun

durative (plural duratives)

  1. This aspect, or a verb in this aspect; a continuative.
    • In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156

Synonyms of durative

Forms of durative

pluralduratives

Origin of durative

From duration + -ive. Alternatively, borrowed from French duratif, from Old French duratif (“lasting continuously (for a certain time)”), via Anglo-Norman French, and existing in the form duratif from about the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, when the spelling was altered to durative under the influence of the literary Neolatin movement. Analogous to dure (“to last, to continue”) + -ive.

Words formed from durative

Questions about durative

What does durative mean?
Durative means of or pertaining to duration.
What part of speech is durative?
Durative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near durative in the dictionary

  1. durational pattern
  2. durational patterns
  3. durationally
  4. durationless
  5. durations
  6. durative
  7. duratively
  8. durativeness
  9. duratives
  10. durativity
  11. Durazno

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