precursive
/pɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
precursive adjective: preceding; introductory; precursory.
Adjective (1)
precursive (not comparable)
- Preceding; introductory; precursory.
- But soon a deep precursive sound moan'd hollow.1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Destiny of Nations
Adjective (2)
IPA/ˌpɹiːˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
precursive (not comparable)
- Being a style of handwriting that can later be developed into cursive.
Origin of precursive
From pre- + cursive.
Words that rhyme with precursive
- recursive
- cursive
- immersive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
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- subversive
- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- cyberdiscursive
- detersive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- perversive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- reversive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
- superrecursive
Questions about precursive
- What does precursive mean?
- Precursive means preceding; introductory; precursory.
- What part of speech is precursive?
- Precursive is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce precursive?
- Precursive is pronounced /pɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/.
Words near precursive in the dictionary
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