reversive
reversive adjective: designating the reversion of an action.
Adjective
reversive (not comparable)
- Designating the reversion of an action.
- The reversive suffix only occurs with quite a small number of verbs that all denote an action of placing an object in a certain position, which is inherently reversible[…]2000, Maria Soukka, A descriptive grammar of Noon: a Cangin language of Senegal
Origin of reversive
From reverse + -ive.
Words formed from reversive
Words that rhyme with reversive
- recursive
- cursive
- immersive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
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- subversive
- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- cyberdiscursive
- detersive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- perversive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- precursive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
- superrecursive
Questions about reversive
- What does reversive mean?
- Reversive means designating the reversion of an action.
- What part of speech is reversive?
- Reversive is an adjective.
Words near reversive in the dictionary
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