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protestive

protestive adjective: expressing protest.

Adjective

protestive (not comparable)

  1. Expressing protest.
    • Acts include attempt to take, reach for peer's toy, offer-withdraw toy either without vocalization and with neutral affect, or with no more than a brief and mildly protestive vocalization and/or facial expression of frown or pucker.1981, Wanda C. Bronson, Toddlers' Behaviors with Agemates

Origin of protestive

From protest + -ive.

Questions about protestive

What does protestive mean?
Protestive means expressing protest.
What part of speech is protestive?
Protestive is an adjective.

Words near protestive in the dictionary

  1. protesters
  2. protesting
  3. protesting too much
  4. protestingly
  5. protestings
  6. protestive
  7. protestor
  8. protestors
  9. protests
  10. protests too much
  11. protestware

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