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PRONUNCIATION OF ATTRITIVE

attritive  [əˈtraɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ATTRITIVE

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

WHAT DOES ATTRITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of attritive in the English dictionary

The definition of attritive in the dictionary is of or relating to attrition.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ATTRITIVE


additive
ˈædɪtɪv
capacitive
kəˈpæsɪtɪv
cognitive
ˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
competitive
kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv
creative
kriːˈeɪtɪv
definitive
dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv
devastative
ˈdɛvəsˌtaɪtɪv
fugitive
ˈfjuːdʒɪtɪv
HIV-positive
ˌeɪtʃaɪviːˈpɒzɪtɪv
innovative
ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv
insensitive
ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv
integrative
ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtɪv
intuitive
ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv
native
ˈneɪtɪv
oxidative
ˈɒksɪˌdeɪtɪv
positive
ˈpɒzɪtɪv
primitive
ˈprɪmɪtɪv
punitive
ˈpjuːnɪtɪv
repetitive
rɪˈpɛtɪtɪv
sensitive
ˈsɛnsɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ATTRITIVE

attrahent
attrap
attrib.
attributable
attribute
attributer
attribution
attribution theory
attributional
attributive
attributively
attributiveness
attributor
attrist
attrit
attrite
attrition
attrition rate
attritional
attritted

WORDS THAT END LIKE ATTRITIVE

active
anticompetitive
aperitive
auditive
case-sensitive
diapositive
false positive
genitive
Gram-positive
infinitive
inquisitive
intransitive
nutritive
partitive
photosensitive
price-sensitive
prohibitive
seropositive
time-sensitive
touch-sensitive
transitive

Synonyms and antonyms of attritive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «attritive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ATTRITIVE

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

Translator English - Chinese

attritive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

atrición
570 millions of speakers

English

attritive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

attritive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

attritive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Истираемость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

attritive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

attritive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

attritives
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Attritive
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zerreiben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

attritive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

attritive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Attritive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

attritive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

attritive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विशेषण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

attritive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

attritive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

attritive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Стираність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

attritive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

attritive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

attritive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

attritive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

attritive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of attritive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ATTRITIVE»

The term «attritive» is barely ever used and occupies the 197.817 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ATTRITIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «attritive» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «attritive» 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 attritive

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATTRITIVE»

Discover the use of attritive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to attritive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hearings
In the first place, I would like to make it clear that the Department of Defense has never proposed the postponement of the effective date for the implementation of these attritive provisions. None of the numerous drafts that were processed ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, 1959
2
Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on ...
In the first place, I would like to make it clear that the Department of Defense has never proposed the postponement of the effective date for the implementation of these attritive provisions. None of the numerous drafts that were processed ...
3
Amendments to Reserve Officers Personnel Act
In the first place, I would like to make it clear that the Department of Defense has never proposed the postponement of the effective date for the implementation of these attritive provisions. None of the numerous drafts that were processed ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, 1959
4
Hearings ... on Sundry Legislation Affecting the Naval and ...
In the first place, I would like to make it clear that the Department of Defense has never proposed the postponement of the effective date for the implementation of these attritive provisions. None of the numerous drafts that were processed ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
5
Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering
Total sliding resistance QRy is shown in Fig.4a, where the cohesive component Ryc, the attritive component Ry and the passive residence componentR p , arealso given. The highest value of the total sliding resistance is obtained for c ...
Manolis Papadrakakis, Michalis Fragiadakis, Nikos D. Lagaros, 2010
6
Gleanings in Science
These effects also are rotary ; hut (ahstractedly considered) the centre of motion is not confined to the external parts of the hall, as they severally fall in succession upon the tahle, like the attritive ; for the hall, according to the nature, manner, ...
7
War and Soldiering
Thus violence is man's part and parcel. Violence manifests in aggression as a result of fear and desire. While fear generates defensive aggression, desire evokes its offensive aspect. Defensive aggression may be retaliatory, attritive or ...
S.C. Sardeshpande, 1993
8
Churchill, the Great Game and Total War
If there were attritive battles, Churchill argued in an October 1917 memorandum, they should at the very least be complemented by maneuvers based on surprise. “They mutually aid each other,” he concluded, “and it might well be that the ...
David Jablonsky, 2013
9
Strategy and History
... course to improve the techniques (target acquisition, force-movement, resupply , etc.) whose combined effect determines the overall efficiency of attritive action. Thus in seeking to enhance overall capabilities, each resource increment can be  ...
Edward Luttwak, 1985
10
The Legacy of Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry in Korea
Some of the most desperate battles of the war took place in the early and attritive phases of the conflict. The Pusan Perimeter and Naktong River defenses and in the area popularly known as the Iron Triangle and the hills called Old Baldy, ...
Edward L. Daily, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATTRITIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term attritive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
So Meta: Cain Velasquez's MMA Wrestling Blueprint
It is an attritive and pressure style that is very much based around Velasquez's innate aggressiveness and nearly endless cardiovascular ... «Bloody Elbow, Jun 15»
2
The Coming Storm: UFC Goiania's Mirsad Bektic
From the word "fight," Bektic is a brutally attritive fighter, his entire style built on a foundation of tremendous pressure, both physical and mental. «Bloody Elbow, Jun 15»
3
Jon 'Bones' Jones: The Human with a Thousand Faces And the …
... encountered and a decisive victory is won: the fighter comes back from this attritive adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow ... «Bloody Elbow, Jan 15»
4
An Educator's Lament: Why Isn't Teaching Enough?
All of the non-teaching responsibilities in education have an attritive effect. I only teach during my class time — I'm not kicking back with my ... «WBUR, Sep 14»
5
No Bones About It
Mere survival is an exhausting, attritive thing and the only prize Gustafsson collected was five more minutes of the same. Sure, he dragged ... «Sports On Earth, Sep 13»
6
FIREPOWER: Marcos Maidana TKO6 Josesito Lopez
This time Lopez had promised to commit to a less attritive strategy for as long as Maidana would permit it. To the delight of viewers, the crude ... «The Cruelest Sport, Jun 13»
7
Bloody Basics: The Teep
Like a jab, the teep is capable of doing damage, though its effects are usually attritive rather than instantaneous. More importantly, the teep ... «Bloody Elbow, Jun 13»
8
Theatre Review: A Clockwork Orange @ Stratford East
A combination of attritive decay with a succession of ham-fisted local authority interventions begat a poundshop-dominated 70s shopping ... «Londonist, Sep 11»
9
From Roman Legions to Navy SEALs: Military Raiding and its …
Whether they are right or wrong, this debate in domestic U.S. politics may further constrain the attritive power of raiding warfare. «The Atlantic, May 11»
10
Good and Evil in World War II
Churchill was well aware of the horrors of war and wrote before 1939 describing “the attritive slaughter of the trenches where combat had been reduced to a ... «UNC Chapell Hill, May 11»

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