| STATIVES | • statives n. Plural of stative. • STATIVE n. a verb indicating a state rather than an action. |
| OPTATIVES | • optatives n. Plural of optative. • OPTATIVE n. a grammatical mood expressing a desire or wish. |
| PORTATIVES | • portatives n. Plural of portative. • PORTATIVE n. a portable organ. |
| QUOTATIVES | • quotatives n. Plural of quotative. • QUOTATIVE n. a function word used in informal contexts to introduce a quotation. |
| TENTATIVES | • tentatives n. Plural of tentative. • TENTATIVE n. something done as an experiment or trial. |
| COMITATIVES | • comitatives n. Plural of comitative. • COMITATIVE n. a comitative case. |
| CONSTATIVES | • constatives n. Plural of constative. • CONSTATIVE n. a statement that can be true or false. |
| INCITATIVES | • incitatives n. Plural of incitative. • INCITATIVE n. an agent that incites. |
| NONSTATIVES | • nonstatives n. Plural of nonstative. • NONSTATIVE n. a verb describing an action rather than a state, as for example throw or thank as opposed to know or hate. |
| RECITATIVES | • recitatives n. Plural of recitative. • 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. |
| COHORTATIVES | • cohortatives n. Plural of cohortative. • COHORTATIVE n. in Hebrew grammar, a lengthened form of the imperfect. |
| EXPECTATIVES | • expectatives n. Plural of expectative. • EXPECTATIVE n. an anticipatory grant of a benefice not yet vacant. |
| RESULTATIVES | • resultatives n. Plural of resultative. • RESULTATIVE n. (in grammar) a phrase which describes the state of a noun by completing the verb phrase. |
| VOLUNTATIVES | • voluntatives n. Plural of voluntative. • VOLUNTATIVE n. a verb form expressing a desire to perform the action denoted by the verb. |
| AUGMENTATIVES | • augmentatives n. Plural of augmentative. • AUGMENTATIVE n. an augmentative word or affix. |
| PREVENTATIVES | • preventatives n. Plural of preventative. • PREVENTATIVE n. something intended to prevent. |
| STERNUTATIVES | • sternutatives n. Plural of sternutative. • STERNUTATIVE n. a substance which causes sneezing, also STERNUTATOR, STERNUTATORY. |
| FREQUENTATIVES | • frequentatives n. Plural of frequentative. • FREQUENTATIVE n. a tense of a verb denoting a repeated or recurrent action or state. |
| REPRESENTATIVES | • representatives n. Plural of representative. • REPRESENTATIVE n. one that represents a constituency as a member of a legislative body. |