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subitive

subitive adjective: characterizing verbs or verbal affixes denoting actions that occur suddenly or sharply.

Adjective

subitive (not comparable)

  1. (Uralic linguistics) Characterizing verbs or verbal affixes denoting actions that occur suddenly or sharply.

Noun

subitive (plural subitives)

  1. (Uralic linguistics) A verbal form denoting an action that occurs suddenly or sharply.

Forms of subitive

pluralsubitives

Origin of subitive

From Latin subitō (“suddenly”) + -ive.

Questions about subitive

What does subitive mean?
Subitive means characterizing verbs or verbal affixes denoting actions that occur suddenly or sharply.
What part of speech is subitive?
Subitive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near subitive in the dictionary

  1. subiterative
  2. subitise
  3. subitised
  4. subitises
  5. subitising
  6. subitive
  7. subitives
  8. subitizable
  9. subitization
  10. subitize
  11. subitized

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