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tardative

tardative adjective: tending to slacken speed, retarding.

Adjective

tardative (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Tending to slacken speed, retarding.

Antonyms of tardative

Questions about tardative

What does tardative mean?
Tardative means tending to slacken speed, retarding.
What part of speech is tardative?
Tardative is an adjective.

Words near tardative in the dictionary

  1. tard wrangler
  2. tard wranglers
  3. tard wrangles
  4. tard wrangling
  5. tardation
  6. tardative
  7. tardbrain
  8. tardbrains
  9. tardeada
  10. tardeadas
  11. Tardebigge

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