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expostulative

expostulative adjective: synonym of expostulatory.

Adjective

expostulative (comparative more expostulative, superlative most expostulative)

  1. Synonym of expostulatory.
    • Shifty Maillard, translating frenzy into articulation; repressive with the one hand, expostulative with the other, does his best1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 262
    Synonyms:
    expostulatory

Synonyms of expostulative

Forms of expostulative

comparativemore expostulative
superlativemost expostulative

Origin of expostulative

From expostulate + -ive.

Words formed from expostulative

Questions about expostulative

What does expostulative mean?
Expostulative means synonym of expostulatory.
What part of speech is expostulative?
Expostulative is an adjective.

Words near expostulative in the dictionary

  1. expostulateth
  2. expostulating
  3. expostulatingly
  4. expostulation
  5. expostulations
  6. expostulative
  7. expostulatively
  8. expostulator
  9. expostulators
  10. expostulatory
  11. exposture

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