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transcriptive

transcriptive adjective: pertaining to, or having the character of, transcription.

Adjective

transcriptive (comparative more transcriptive, superlative most transcriptive)

  1. Pertaining to, or having the character of, transcription
    • […] Stevens wrote symbolic rather than transcriptive poetry.2009 August 23, Helen Vendler, “The Plain Sense of Things”, in New York Times

Forms of transcriptive

comparativemore transcriptive
superlativemost transcriptive

Words formed from transcriptive

Questions about transcriptive

What does transcriptive mean?
Transcriptive means pertaining to, or having the character of, transcription.
What part of speech is transcriptive?
Transcriptive is an adjective.

Words near transcriptive in the dictionary

  1. transcriptionist
  2. transcriptionists
  3. transcriptionnally
  4. transcriptions
  5. transcriptitious
  6. transcriptive
  7. transcriptively
  8. transcriptomal
  9. transcriptome
  10. transcriptomes
  11. transcriptomewide

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