| APPOSITIVELY | • appositively adv. In an appositive manner. • APPOSITIVE adv. relating to apposition. |
| DIAPOSITIVES | • diapositives n. Plural of diapositive. • DIAPOSITIVE n. a transparent photographic positive; a slide. |
| DISPOSITIVES | • dispositives n. Plural of dispositive. • DISPOSITIVE n. a thing that disposes. |
| DISQUISITIVE | • disquisitive adj. Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive. • DISQUISITIVE adj. of or like a disquisition, also DISQUISITIONAL, DISQUISITIONARY, DISQUISITORY. |
| DITRANSITIVE | • ditransitive adj. (Linguistics) Of a class of verbs which take both a direct and an indirect object. An example is ’give’… • ditransitive n. (Linguistics) A verb that takes both an object and an indirect object. • DITRANSITIVE n. a verb able to take both a direct and an indirect object. |
| EXPOSITIVELY | • EXPOSITIVE adv. serving to explain. |
| INTENSITIVES | • INTENSITIVE n. a word giving emphasis, also INTENSATIVE. |
| INTRANSITIVE | • intransitive adj. (Grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object. • intransitive adj. (Rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained. • intransitive n. (Grammar) An intransitive verb. |
| NONSENSITIVE | • nonsensitive adj. Not sensitive; lacking sensory perception. • NONSENSITIVE adj. not sensitive. |
| POSITIVENESS | • positiveness n. (Uncountable) The quality of being positive; positivity. • positiveness n. (Countable) The result of being positive. • POSITIVENESS n. the state of being positive. |
| POSITIVISTIC | • positivistic adj. Of or pertaining to positivism. • POSITIVISTIC adj. relating to positivism, the doctrine that that which is not observable is not knowable. |
| POSITIVITIES | • positivities n. Plural of positivity. • POSITIVITY n. positiveness. |
| POSTPOSITIVE | • postpositive adj. (Grammar, of an adjective or other modifier) Placed after the word modified, either immediately after… • postpositive n. (Grammar) A postpositive modifier. • POSTPOSITIVE adj. of an adjective, placed after the word it modifies e.g. attorney general, Scrabble player manque. |
| PREPOSITIVES | • prepositives n. Plural of prepositive. • PREPOSITIVE n. something placed before. |
| SEROPOSITIVE | • seropositive adj. (Of blood serum): Testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive). • seropositive adj. (Of a person or animal): Having seropositive blood serum. • seropositive n. A person with that blood. |
| SUPPOSITIVES | • suppositives n. Plural of suppositive. • SUPPOSITIVE n. a suppositive conjunction. |
| TRANSITIVELY | • transitively adv. In a transitive manner. • TRANSITIVE adv. taking a direct object. |
| TRANSITIVITY | • transitivity n. (Grammar) The degree in which any one verb can take/govern objects. • transitivity n. (Mathematics, logic) The property of being transitive. • TRANSITIVITY n. the state of being transitive. |