ingressive
/ɪnˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ingressive adjective: going or directed inward, entering.
Adjective
ingressive (comparative more ingressive, superlative most ingressive)
- Going or directed inward, entering.
- Open to entry or examination.
- The chances that your Internet activity is being monitored are low, despite the ingressive nature of the modern Internet environment.
- Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
- Another feature of Icelandic pronunciation that many learners remark on is that sometimes words, and even larger parts of sentences, are pronounced while inhaling (a phenomenon known as pulmonic ingressive pronunciation).2022, Daisy L. Neijman, Icelandic: An Essential Grammar, Routledge, →ISBN, page 21
- Aspectually indicating that an action is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
- Being a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
- This spring is the ingressive source of the water that flows through the cave.
Noun
ingressive (plural ingressives)
ingressive meaning in Bengali
ingressive in Bengali
- প্রবেশকারী, প্রবেশের জন্য, পরীক্ষার জন্য উন্মুক্ত
Antonyms of ingressive
Forms of ingressive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more ingressive |
| superlative | most ingressive |
| Noun | |
| plural | ingressives |
Origin of ingressive
From ingress + -ive.
Words formed from ingressive
Words that rhyme with ingressive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
- recessive
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- 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
- future progressive
Questions about ingressive
- What does ingressive mean?
- Ingressive means going or directed inward, entering.
- What is ingressive in Bengali?
- Ingressive in Bengali is প্রবেশকারী, প্রবেশের জন্য, পরীক্ষার জন্য উন্মুক্ত. See Ingressive meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is ingressive?
- Ingressive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce ingressive?
- Ingressive is pronounced /ɪnˈɡɹɛsɪv/.
Words near ingressive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ingressive (page history and authors); ingressive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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