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indagative

indagative adjective: searching; exploratory; investigative.

Adjective

indagative (comparative more indagative, superlative most indagative)

  1. (obsolete) Searching; exploratory; investigative.
    • The church might not be ambitious or indagative of such employment1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old

Forms of indagative

comparativemore indagative
superlativemost indagative

Origin of indagative

From indagate + -ive.

Questions about indagative

What does indagative mean?
Indagative means searching; exploratory; investigative.
What part of speech is indagative?
Indagative is an adjective.

Words near indagative in the dictionary

  1. indagated
  2. indagates
  3. indagating
  4. indagation
  5. indagations
  6. indagative
  7. indagator
  8. indagators
  9. indagatory
  10. indagatrices
  11. indagatrix

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