redressive
redressive adjective: tending to redress.
Adjective
redressive (comparative more redressive, superlative most redressive)
- Tending to redress.
- And here can I forget the generous band
Who touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd
Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ?a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
- And here can I forget the generous band
Forms of redressive
| comparative | more redressive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most redressive |
Origin of redressive
From redress + -ive.
Words that rhyme with redressive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
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- recessive
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
Questions about redressive
- What does redressive mean?
- Redressive means tending to redress.
- What part of speech is redressive?
- Redressive is an adjective.
Words near redressive in the dictionary
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