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practive

practive adjective: active or practical.

Adjective

practive (comparative more practive, superlative most practive)

  1. (obsolete) Active or practical.
    • You take your Prisiner for a practive man1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson...

Forms of practive

comparativemore practive
superlativemost practive

Words formed from practive

Questions about practive

What does practive mean?
Practive means active or practical.
What part of speech is practive?
Practive is an adjective.

Words near practive in the dictionary

  1. practising
  2. practisings
  3. practitioner
  4. practitioners
  5. practitionership
  6. practive
  7. practively
  8. practolol
  9. practopoiesis
  10. prad
  11. PRADAN

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