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sustentive

sustentive adjective: serving to sustain.

Adjective

sustentive (comparative more sustentive, superlative most sustentive)

  1. Serving to sustain.

Forms of sustentive

comparativemore sustentive
superlativemost sustentive

Questions about sustentive

What does sustentive mean?
Sustentive means serving to sustain.
What part of speech is sustentive?
Sustentive is an adjective.

Words near sustentive in the dictionary

  1. sustentative
  2. sustentator
  3. sustentators
  4. sustention
  5. sustentions
  6. sustentive
  7. sustentor
  8. sustentors
  9. suster
  10. Susterian
  11. susters

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