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redditive

redditive adjective: answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply.

Adjective

redditive (not comparable)

  1. Answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply.
  2. (obsolete, rare) Restorative; relating to the process of restoring.

Noun

redditive (plural redditives)

  1. A word which answers an interrogative.
    • AN Interrogative and its Redditive (i. e. the Word which answers it) shall be of the same Case and Tense[.]Shorter Examples; Or, Second Book of English Examples, to be Rendered Into Latin – Adapted to the Use of the Lower Class, Eton, printed by E. Williams, 1826, p.30

Forms of redditive

pluralredditives

Origin of redditive

From Latin redditivus.

From Latin redditivum.

Questions about redditive

What does redditive mean?
Redditive means answering to an interrogative or inquiry; conveying a reply.
What part of speech is redditive?
Redditive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near redditive in the dictionary

  1. Redditch
  2. reddited
  3. redditing
  4. reddition
  5. redditions
  6. redditive
  7. redditives
  8. redditor
  9. redditors
  10. reddits
  11. Redditt

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