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revertive

revertive adjective: reverting, or tending to revert; returning.

Adjective

revertive (not comparable)

  1. Reverting, or tending to revert; returning.
    • The tide revertive1727, James Thomson, A Poem to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton

Origin of revertive

From revert + -ive.

Questions about revertive

What does revertive mean?
Revertive means reverting, or tending to revert; returning.
What part of speech is revertive?
Revertive is an adjective.

Words near revertive in the dictionary

  1. reverteth
  2. revertibility
  3. revertible
  4. reverting
  5. reverting back
  6. revertive
  7. revertively
  8. reverts
  9. reverts back
  10. revery
  11. reverying

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