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Meaning of "agentive" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF AGENTIVE

ˈeɪdʒəntɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AGENTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Agentive can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AGENTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of agentive in the English dictionary

The first definition of agentive in the dictionary is denoting a case of nouns, etc, indicating the agent described by the verb. Other definition of agentive is indicating agency. Agentive is also the agentive case.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AGENTIVE

adventive · affrontive · anal-retentive · appointive · argumentive · attentive · disincentive · fermentive · inattentive · incentive · inventive · irretentive · pendentive · plaintive · preventive · retentive · substantive · sustentive · unattentive · uninventive

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AGENTIVE

agency spokesperson · agenda · agendaless · agendum · agendums · agene · agenesia · agenesis · agenetic · agenize · agent · agent of production · Agent Orange · agent provocateur · agent-general · agential · agentival · agentry · agents provocateurs · agents-general

WORDS THAT END LIKE AGENTIVE

active · alternative · anal retentive · assentive · automotive · circumventive · competitive · cooperative · creative · effective · executive · in the negative · intentive · interactive · native · negative · overattentive · presentive · tax incentive · wage incentive

Synonyms and antonyms of agentive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «agentive» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF AGENTIVE

Find out the translation of agentive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of agentive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «agentive» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

施事
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

agentiva
570 millions of speakers
en

English

agentive
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

agentive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

agentive
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

агентивного
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

agentive
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

agentive
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

agentif
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Berani
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Agens
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

動作主格
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

agentive
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Agen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

agentive
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

எழுவாய்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

एजंटिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

agentive
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

agentivo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

agentive
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

агентивного
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

agentive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

agentive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agentief
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

agentive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

agentive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of agentive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AGENTIVE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of agentive
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «agentive».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about agentive

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGENTIVE»

Discover the use of agentive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to agentive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A University Course in English Grammar
Doesn't she sing beautifully? (agentive) Weeds grow even faster in this climate. ( non-agentive) Grapes won't ripen without some sun. (non-agentive) Punctual verbs can likewise be either agentive (kick hit, swat, jump) or non-agentive (drop,  ...
Angela Downing, Philip Locke, 2002
2
Early Twentieth-century Avant-garde Book Design: An Agentive ...
Campbell's inclusive concept of agency as communal, promiscuous, and protean provides the link that makes possible the study of genre manipulation as agentive . The long-reaching consequences of attempts to seize agency are extremely ...
Shannon Kelly Proulx, 2008
3
The Progressive in 19th-century English: A Process of ...
6.3 Agentivity of subject The present section will be devoted to the distribution of the progressive across the parameter of agentive and non-agentive subjects. This area may be relevant to the integration of the progressive into late Modern ...
Erik Smitterberg, 2005
4
Socializing Metaphysics: The Nature of Social Reality
Searle divides functional facts into agentive and nonagentive functional facts. The fact that the function of the heart is to pump blood is a nonagentive fact; it is not imposed by our intentional use of the heart but rather by our valuing. The fact  ...
Frederick F. Schmitt, 2003
5
A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English
Without doubt, more and finer-grained representational categories can be distinguished among agentive and non-agentive -er nominalizations. This is, however, as far as I will take the representational description: the main aim of my analysis ...
Liesbet Heyvaert, 2003
6
Typology of Resultative Constructions
The referent of static (quasi-agentive) agentive objects does participate in the ( resultant) state. According to the meaning, two subtypes of static agentive object can be distinguished which are related mostly to two types of bi-valent ...
Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, Bernard Comrie, 1988
7
Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics
In each language, the 'agentive' (the 'nominative' in English, the 'ergative' in Eskimo) may be regarded as the 'marked' term of the opposition of case. The difference between the two languages lies in the fact that English generalizes the use of ...
John Lyons, 1968
8
The Oxford Handbook of the Self
Similarly, it might be possible for cognitive expectations to exert a top–down influence on agentive experience at least around the margins. Conversely, one may ask how strong the dependence of agentive judgments on agentive experience is ...
Shaun Gallagher, 2011
9
Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages: With ...
(iii) Yiddish, in marked contrast to other Judaized languages, has created a considerable number of compound agentive nouns with lb 'I- (b'lj- pi) /ba'al- (ba' ale)/ 'owner; husband' + a Hebrew or Judeo-Aramaic noun; many of these Yiddish ...
Paul Wexler, 2006
10
Agency and Joint Attention
As pointed out by Moore, Wegner, and Haggard (2009), it is unclear whether in answering such questions subjects are relying solely on their agentive experiences or reporting agentive beliefs based on further considerations. To try and ...
Janet Metcalfe, Herbert S. Terrace, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGENTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term agentive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Kick-Butt World of Cutthroat Compounds
Editor and historical linguist Brianne Hughes studies a remarkable subset of exocentric compounds called agentive and instrumental ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
2
More Parents Opt In to 'Opt Out'
In English, we typically attach the agentive suffix “-er” to verbs when we need to identify such “doers,” but things get tricky with a phrasal verb ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»
3
Is the “I'd Bottom for Hillary” Meme Good for the Gays?
A more agentive approach to politics might render the statement: “I am bottoming for Hillary, won't you join me?” Verdict: Not great for the gays. «Slate Magazine, Apr 15»
4
At the Epsten, Women to Watch questions nature.
Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin's intricate textiles paint familiar landscapes in a more agentive, aggressive light. The artist's "Untitled Triptych" ... «Pitch Weekly, Mar 15»
5
Youth in the Lead
... the ascendance into the middle class was a pipe dream, and they were preparing for a life of active and agentive participation in working ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
6
The morning after SONA 2015
The point is this: A consequence of the electoral system we do have means that political parties have agentive power to change who they send ... «Independent Online, Feb 15»
7
Consciousness and death's badness
It includes perceptual states of varying modalities, as well as cognitive and agentive states that, arguably, serve to add richness and complexity ... «Practical Ethics, Feb 15»
8
Touring Super Mario World in 2014
Like Forest Fortress also, the second portion is easier than the first, but it is better contrasted: the greater amount of agentive movement allowed ... «Gamasutra, Nov 14»
9
Why World War I and the Ottoman Empire matter today
Most Western countries have a sense of nationalism derived from hard-won, agentive self-determination, often attributed to a revolution (e.g., ... «Deseret News, Nov 14»
10
Cosmology and Consciousness III conference begins
... India, said that human existence is experienced in the form of an agentive self of the action, not just for that moment, but for all moments that ... «Phayul, Nov 14»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Agentive [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/agentive>. Jun 2026 ».
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