orientative
orientative adjective: serving to orient or orientate.
Adjective
orientative
- Serving to orient or orientate.
- An activities coordinator named Suzy Ghosh came by with orientative tidings and registration forms for the afternoon’s outings in Newport, Rhode Island.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- In our view, this approach to care ethics can be operationalized through an innovative account of two basic orientative principles and their systemic interrelation: autonomy, on the one hand, and the principle of vulnerability, on the other.2021 June 16, Pirni A., Balistreri M., Capasso M., Umbrello S., Merenda F., “Robot Care Ethics Between Autonomy and Vulnerability: Coupling Principles and Practices in Autonomous Systems for Care.”...
- Transmitting the sense of orientation towards an entity.
- The orientative case indicates that an entity or event is oriented towards or around the referent.2011 July 15, Dibella Wdzenczny, “The case for fewer cases in pre-chukotko-kamchatkan: Grammaticalization and semantics in internal reconstruction”, in Digital Commons @ EMU, retrieved 28 Feb 2022...
Origin of orientative
From orientate + -ive or orient + -ative.
Words formed from orientative
Questions about orientative
- What does orientative mean?
- Orientative means serving to orient or orientate.
- What part of speech is orientative?
- Orientative is an adjective.
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