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expatiative

expatiative adjective: expatiatory, diffusive, expansive.

Adjective

expatiative (comparative more expatiative, superlative most expatiative)

  1. Expatiatory, diffusive, expansive.
    • But my Leech—a leech / Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings, / Capaciously expatiative, which make / His little body like a red balloon, / As full of blood as that of hydrogen, / Sucked from men's hearts; […]1820, Sophocles, “Œdipus Tyrannus; or, Swellfoot the Tyrant. A Tragedy, in Two Acts. […]”, in Percy Bysshe Shelley, transl., edited by [Mary] Shelley, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […]...

Forms of expatiative

comparativemore expatiative
superlativemost expatiative

Origin of expatiative

From expatiate + -ive.

Questions about expatiative

What does expatiative mean?
Expatiative means expatiatory, diffusive, expansive.
What part of speech is expatiative?
Expatiative is an adjective.

Words near expatiative in the dictionary

  1. expatiating
  2. expatiatingly
  3. expatiatings
  4. expatiation
  5. expatiations
  6. expatiative
  7. expatiator
  8. expatiators
  9. expatiatory
  10. expatriate
  11. expatriated

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