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pulsive

pulsive adjective: tending to compel; compulsory.

Adjective

pulsive (comparative more pulsive, superlative most pulsive)

  1. Tending to compel; compulsory.
    • What I here speak is forced from my lips / By the pulsive strain of conscience.1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […]...

Forms of pulsive

comparativemore pulsive
superlativemost pulsive

Words formed from pulsive

Questions about pulsive

What does pulsive mean?
Pulsive means tending to compel; compulsory.
What part of speech is pulsive?
Pulsive is an adjective.

Words near pulsive in the dictionary

  1. pulsion
  2. pulsions
  3. Pulsipher
  4. Pulsiphers
  5. pulsitility
  6. pulsive
  7. pulsivity
  8. pulsojet
  9. pulsojets
  10. pulsological
  11. pulsology

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