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spurtive

spurtive adjective: occurring in spurts or short bursts.

Adjective

spurtive (comparative more spurtive, superlative most spurtive)

  1. Occurring in spurts or short bursts.
    • […] spurtive phenomenon cannot be captured in a simple time trend. Only the ratchet approach can adequately model the spurtive irregularity.2002, Raj Kumar Sen, Biswajit Chatterjee, Indian Economy, Agenda for the 21st Century, page 311

Forms of spurtive

comparativemore spurtive
superlativemost spurtive

Origin of spurtive

From spurt + -ive.

Words formed from spurtive

Questions about spurtive

What does spurtive mean?
Spurtive means occurring in spurts or short bursts.
What part of speech is spurtive?
Spurtive is an adjective.

Words near spurtive in the dictionary

  1. spurt
  2. spurted
  3. spurting
  4. spurtingly
  5. spurtings
  6. spurtive
  7. spurtively
  8. spurtle
  9. spurtled
  10. spurtles
  11. spurtling

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