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genuflective

genuflective adjective: servile.

Adjective

genuflective (comparative more genuflective, superlative most genuflective)

  1. servile
    • But as with many journalists provided such access, the trade-off seems to have been an agreement signed in blood to conduct the interviews in the genuflective mode.2009 February 1, Joe Queenan, “Super Bowl Suits”, in New York Times

Forms of genuflective

comparativemore genuflective
superlativemost genuflective

Origin of genuflective

From genuflect + -ive.

Questions about genuflective

What does genuflective mean?
Genuflective means servile.
What part of speech is genuflective?
Genuflective is an adjective.

Words near genuflective in the dictionary

  1. genuflect
  2. genuflected
  3. genuflecting
  4. genuflection
  5. genuflections
  6. genuflective
  7. genuflector
  8. genuflectors
  9. genuflectory
  10. genuflects
  11. genuflex

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