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propositive

propositive adjective: making, or concerned with, propositions or proposals (e.g., suggestions, hypotheses).

Adjective

propositive (not comparable)

  1. Making, or concerned with, propositions or proposals (e.g., suggestions, hypotheses).
    Synonyms:
    propositional
  2. Intentional.
    Synonyms:
    volitional
  3. (Korean language) a specific verb form in the Korean language, also sometimes called the hortative or subjunctive assertive.
    • "This auxiliary verb ma-l- occurs only in the imperative, propositive and gerund forms."1950, Sang Soon Yun, Introduction to Spoken Korean, page 250
    • "Imperative and propositive (ie, 'let us V type) sentences were excluded. "1997, Young-joo Kim, “The Acquisition of Korean,”, in The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 417

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Questions about propositive

What does propositive mean?
Propositive means making, or concerned with, propositions or proposals (e.g., suggestions, hypotheses).
What part of speech is propositive?
Propositive is an adjective.

Words near propositive in the dictionary

  1. propositionized
  2. propositionizes
  3. propositionizing
  4. propositionless
  5. propositions
  6. propositive
  7. propositus
  8. proposituses
  9. propound
  10. propounded
  11. propounder

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