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PRONUNCIATION OF ASCRIPTIVE

ascriptive  [əˈskrɪptɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASCRIPTIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ascriptive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ASCRIPTIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ascriptive in the English dictionary

The definition of ascriptive in the dictionary is having the ability to be attributable to.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASCRIPTIVE


adaptive
əˈdæptɪv
adoptive
əˈdɒptɪv
adsorptive
ədˈsɔːptɪv
captive
ˈkæptɪv
circumscriptive
ˌsɜːkəmˈskrɪptɪv
contraceptive
ˌkɒntrəˈsɛptɪv
deceptive
dɪˈsɛptɪv
descriptive
dɪˈskrɪptɪv
disruptive
dɪsˈrʌptɪv
inscriptive
ɪnˈskrɪptɪv
nociceptive
ˌnəʊsɪˈsɛptɪv
nondescriptive
ˌnɒndɪˈskrɪptɪv
perceptive
pəˈsɛptɪv
prescriptive
prɪˈskrɪptɪv
presumptive
prɪˈzʌmptɪv
proprioceptive
ˌprəʊprɪəˈsɛptɪv
proscriptive
prəʊˈskrɪptɪv
receptive
rɪˈsɛptɪv
subscriptive
sʌbˈskrɪptɪv
transcriptive
trænsˈkrɪptɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASCRIPTIVE

ascocarp
ascocarpic
ascogonia
ascogonium
Ascoli Piceno
ascomycete
ascomycetous
asconce
ascorbate
ascorbic acid
ascospore
ascosporic
ascot
ascribable
ascribe
ascription
ASCU
Asculum Picenum
ascus

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASCRIPTIVE

active
assumptive
conceptive
consumptive
corruptive
eruptive
exemptive
exteroceptive
heir presumptive
inceptive
interceptive
interoceptive
interruptive
maladaptive
nonadaptive
pre-emptive
redemptive
resorptive
sorptive
transumptive
unreceptive

Synonyms and antonyms of ascriptive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ascriptive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASCRIPTIVE

Find out the translation of ascriptive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ascriptive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ascriptive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

先赋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adscriptivo
570 millions of speakers

English

ascriptive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ascriptive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ascriptive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ascriptive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

atributiva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ascriptive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ascriptive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Askriptif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

askriptive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ascriptive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

ascriptive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Askriptif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ascriptive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ascriptive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्णनात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

atfedici
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ascrittiva
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

askryptywnych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ascriptive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ascriptive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ascriptive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ascriptive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ascriptive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ascriptive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ascriptive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASCRIPTIVE»

The term «ascriptive» is normally little used and occupies the 149.668 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASCRIPTIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ascriptive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ascriptive» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASCRIPTIVE»

Discover the use of ascriptive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ascriptive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Identity in Democracy
shown why ascriptive identity is conceptually important, we now need to assess its ethical importance in democracy. Two different views of ascriptive groups are common. One view is symmetrically critical of all ascriptive identity groups for ...
Amy Gutmann, 2009
2
Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and ...
Accountability is most likely to reduce ascriptive bias when allocators know they must communicate evaluations to candidates and justify them to their superiors ( Blalock, 1991, p. 103). In other words, the transparency of allocation processes ...
Laura Beth Nielsen, Robert L. Nelson, 2006
3
The Politics of Preference: Democratic Institutions and ...
And for newly mobilizing groups, ascriptive features are often the most easily targeted to create a sense of community and political cohesion. In the 1970s, the study of ethnic and other ascriptive identities was characterized by a debate over  ...
Sunita Parikh, 1997
4
Semantics:
ascriptive sentences; (ii) the subject and the complement of equative, but not ascriptive, sentences are freely permutable. The difference between equative and ascriptive sentences is clear enough if we compare the sentences 'John is the ...
John Lyons, 1977
5
Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the ...
ascriptive groups are "natural" and interest groups are "artificial." Further, it does not mean that members of such groups are not able to form associations and define their own identities; to the contrary, members of such groups are constantly ...
Melissa S. Williams, 2000
6
Liberalism: The limits of liberalism
Ascriptive Group Theories. According to Ascriptive Group versions of Primary Right Theories, it is groups whose memberships are defined by what are sometimes called ascriptive characteristics that have the right to secede (even in the ...
G. W. Smith, 2002
7
Rights, Groups, and Self-Invention: Group-Differentiated ...
The first model treated is the ascriptive form of group- differentiated right. The analysis begins with the assumption, explored in Chapter 3, that any right granted will of necessity be granted to a class of persons. It then suggests that where the ...
E J Mitnick, 2013
8
What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice
It is an ascriptive norm. But the argument that women deserve less pay for the same jobs or less important and lucrative jobs does pervert the norm.122 The perversion lies in the fact that this claim gives most of the privileges to one sex and ...
Jennifer L. Hochschild, 1986
9
Social System
fundamental complex of social structures in which ascriptive criteria play a central part and which, so far as we know, is common, though with many variations, to all societies. This is the cluster which in classificatory terms utilizes the qualities ...
Talcott Parsons, Turner Bryan, 2013
10
Introducing English Grammar
Ascriptive complements It is unfortunate that grammatical tradition reserves the term complement for ascriptive complements alone, thus suggesting that objects are not complements at all. Students of language structure have to be on their ...
David J. Young, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASCRIPTIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ascriptive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Wes Carter: Many work to bridge nation's 'great divides'
... article I wrote a number of years ago about a neighbor and others close to me who are always working to cross our ascriptive racial barriers. «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
2
Miles Morales as Spider-Man: World on the cusp of change, triumph …
The former held that identity was ascriptive and immutable and the latter gave it a territorial form and shape. Miles Morales as Spider- Man. «Firstpost, Jun 15»
3
Pioneer or pretender?
Lying about your circumstances is obviously wrong. If Dolezal had been open about her ascriptive identity (white) even as she campaigned to ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jun 15»
4
The political economy of personhood
In the ancient and medieval world, inequality and ascriptive hierarchy are the norm. People are divided into citizens and slaves, or lords and ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
5
From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much
In Blay's narrow political universe, the NAACP branch presidency is an honorific to be awarded on the basis of ascriptive categories like race ... «eNews Park Forest, Jun 15»
6
Follow the people
... in nature and this manifests itself through ascriptive leadership with high caste accompanied by relative wealth being the main determinant. «Nepali times, May 15»
7
Prejudice disguised as politeness
The usual hetero-normative matrimonial ads, published everyday, routinely specify gotra and other ascriptive preferences, even within specific ... «The Hindu, May 15»
8
Equality was Buddha's message
Thus, the ascriptive distinction (like varna distinction) is not to be the basis for discrimination and treatment. The social not only rational, moral, ... «The Hans India, May 15»
9
Lineage, heritage define success? – Sakmongkol AK47
Sociologists have longed recognised ascriptive values and achieving values as basis for progress. The backward people, the capacity ... «The Malaysian Insider, Apr 15»
10
People in Black: Aging Hipsters and the Humanities Brain Drain
Without the right ascriptive credentials to flash, who would dare risk failure or discrimination if tagged insufficiently or inauthentically ... «American Spectator, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Ascriptive [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ascriptive>. May 2024 ».
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