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recreative

recreative adjective: being, or pertaining to, recreation.

Adjective

recreative (not comparable)

  1. Being, or pertaining to, recreation.
    • Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides...1892, Occident - Volume 22, page 36
    • Tribute acts, by contrast, are purely recreative.2007 January 13, Allan Kozinn, “Interpreting the Beatles Without Copying”, in New York Times
  2. Creating anew.
    • recreative power

Noun

recreative (plural recreatives)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A recreative thing or activity.
    • For, theſe are onely Cynthias recreatiues / Made vnto Phœbus, and are feminine; […]1615, Samuel Daniel, “The Prologue”, in Hymens Triumph. A Pastorall Tragicomædie. […], London: […] [John Legate] for Francis Constable, […], →OCLC, signature ¶3, recto
    • And in this kinde I knovv fevv recreatiues that poſſeſſe vs more, then the humour of building, in reſpectthey both ſatisfie our ovvne preſent inuention, and ſerue to our poſteritie, as perpetuall remembrances, and memorials of their progenitors, […]1620, “A Discourse of Rome”, in Horæ Subseciuæ. Observations and Discourses., London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Edward Blount, […], →OCLC, page 382

recreative meaning in Indonesian

recreative in Indonesian

to do with recreation
rekreatif

Synonyms of recreative

Forms of recreative

pluralrecreatives

Origin of recreative

From recreate + -ive.

Words formed from recreative

Questions about recreative

What does recreative mean?
Recreative means being, or pertaining to, recreation.
What is recreative in Indonesian?
Recreative in Indonesian is rekreatif. See Recreative meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is recreative?
Recreative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near recreative in the dictionary

  1. recreationally
  2. recreationism
  3. recreationist
  4. recreationists
  5. recreations
  6. recreative
  7. recreatively
  8. recreativeness
  9. recreatives
  10. recreator
  11. recreators

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