guessive
guessive adjective: conjectural.
Adjective
guessive (not comparable)
- conjectural
- So in Beasts , in Birds , in Dreams , and all viary Omens , they are only the guessive interpretations of dim - ey'd Man1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political
Origin of guessive
From guess + -ive.
Words that rhyme with guessive
- 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
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
Questions about guessive
- What does guessive mean?
- Guessive means conjectural.
- What part of speech is guessive?
- Guessive is an adjective.
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