| ALTERATIVE | • alterative n. (Medicine, now historical) A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body… • alterative adj. Causing alteration. • ALTERATIVE n. a medicine or treatment that changes bodily functions. |
| AVERTIMENT | • avertiment n. (Obsolete) advertisement (public notice). • AVERTIMENT n. (Milton) advertisement. |
| DETRACTIVE | • detractive adj. Tending to detract or draw. • detractive adj. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. • DETRACTIVE adj. tending to detract, also DETRACTORY. |
| ENTREATIVE | • entreative adj. Used in entreaty; pleading. • ENTREATIVE adj. (obsolete) used in entreaty; pleading. |
| ERUCTATIVE | • ERUCTATIVE adj. tending to produce eructation. |
| EXTRACTIVE | • extractive adj. That serves to extract something. • extractive adj. That withdraws natural resources by extraction. • extractive adj. Able to be extracted. |
| INVETERATE | • inveterate adj. Firmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing. • inveterate adj. (Of a person) Having had a habit for a long time. • inveterate adj. Malignant; virulent; spiteful. |
| REACTIVATE | • reactivate v. To activate again. • re-activate v. Alternative form of reactivate. • REACTIVATE v. to activate again. |
| RECITATIVE | • recitative n. (Music) dialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms… • recitative adj. Of a recital. • RECITATIVE n. a style of musical declamation, between singing and ordinary speech, used esp. in the dialogue and narrative parts of an opera or oratorio, also RECITATIVO. |
| REMOTIVATE | • remotivate v. To motivate again. • REMOTIVATE v. to motivate again. |
| REPUTATIVE | • reputative adj. Reputed; putative. • REPUTATIVE adj. reputed, putative. |
| RETRACTIVE | • retractive n. That which retracts or withdraws. • retractive adj. Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. • RETRACTIVE adj. serving to retract. |
| TOLERATIVE | • tolerative adj. (Grammar) Relating to a grammatical case, similar to the passive, that indicates something is being… • TOLERATIVE adj. relating to toleration. |
| TRAVERTINE | • travertine n. (Mineralogy) A light, porous form of concretionary limestone (or calcite) deposited from solution, and… • TRAVERTINE n. (Italian) a pale limestone deposited from solution, e.g. from springs, also TRAVERTIN. |
| TRAVESTIED | • travestied v. Simple past tense and past participle of travesty. • TRAVESTY v. to parody. |
| TRAVESTIES | • travesties n. Plural of travesty. • TRAVESTY v. to parody. |
| VITUPERATE | • vituperate v. (Transitive). • vituperate v. (Intransitive) To use abusive or harsh words. • vituperate adj. Of, characterized by, or relating to abusive or harsh criticism. |