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introitive

introitive adjective: tending inward.

Adjective

introitive (comparative more introitive, superlative most introitive)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Tending inward.
    • the accumulative power and the dissipative, the introitive and the extroitive,a. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Footnotes to a Philosophical Text

Antonyms of introitive

Forms of introitive

comparativemore introitive
superlativemost introitive

Origin of introitive

From introit + -ive.

Questions about introitive

What does introitive mean?
Introitive means tending inward.
What part of speech is introitive?
Introitive is an adjective.

Words near introitive in the dictionary

  1. introgressors
  2. Introibo
  3. introing
  4. introit
  5. introital
  6. introitive
  7. introits
  8. introitus
  9. introitus vaginae
  10. introitus vaginarum
  11. introitus vaginæ

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