exessive
/ɪkˈsɛsɪv/
exessive adjective: of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.
Adjective
exessive (not comparable)
- Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.
Noun
exessive (plural exessives)
- The exessive case, or a word in that case.
Forms of exessive
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Origin of exessive
From ex- (“out of”) + essive. According to linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso, the case was originally called the excessive (derived from Latin excessus (“departure”)), which would make the spelling exessive a case of folk etymology.
Phrases with exessive
Words that rhyme with exessive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
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- recessive
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
- future progressive
Questions about exessive
- What does exessive mean?
- Exessive means of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.
- What part of speech is exessive?
- Exessive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce exessive?
- Exessive is pronounced /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/.
Words near exessive in the dictionary
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