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egressive

egressive adjective: going or directed outward.

Adjective

egressive

  1. Going or directed outward.
  2. Uttered by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
  3. descriptive of a place or channel through which something such as water or lava leaves an area.
    • This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake.

Noun

egressive (plural egressives)

  1. A speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.

egressive meaning in Tamil

egressive in Tamil

புறவுயிர்ப்புள்ள

Antonyms of egressive

Forms of egressive

pluralegressives

Words formed from egressive

Words that rhyme with egressive

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Questions about egressive

What does egressive mean?
Egressive means going or directed outward.
What is egressive in Tamil?
Egressive in Tamil is புறவுயிர்ப்புள்ள. See Egressive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is egressive?
Egressive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near egressive in the dictionary

  1. egressed
  2. egresses
  3. egressing
  4. egression
  5. egressions
  6. egressive
  7. egressively
  8. egressives
  9. egressor
  10. egressors
  11. egret

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Adapted from Wiktionary: egressive (page history and authors); egressive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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