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transportive

transportive adjective: serving to transport to another place.

Adjective

transportive (comparative more transportive, superlative most transportive)

  1. Serving to transport to another place.
    • For all the hype and initial success of devices like the Kindle, they threaten to strip traditional books of much of their transportive appeal.2009 April 5, Brad Stone, “Is This the Future of the Digital Book?”, in New York Times

Forms of transportive

comparativemore transportive
superlativemost transportive

Origin of transportive

From transport + -ive.

Questions about transportive

What does transportive mean?
Transportive means serving to transport to another place.
What part of speech is transportive?
Transportive is an adjective.

Words near transportive in the dictionary

  1. transportin
  2. transporting
  3. transportingly
  4. transportings
  5. transportins
  6. transportive
  7. transportless
  8. transportment
  9. transportments
  10. transportome
  11. transportomes

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