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Meaning of "comminative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF COMMINATIVE

ˈkɒmɪnəˌtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMINATIVE

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

WHAT DOES COMMINATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of comminative in the English dictionary

The definition of comminative in the dictionary is comminatory.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMMINATIVE

active · administrative · alternative · annihilative · automotive · commiserative · competitive · cooperative · creative · effective · executive · interactive · native · negative · perspective · positive · relative · representative · respective · sensitive

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMINATIVE

commie · commies · comminate · commination · comminatory · Commines · commingle · comminute · comminuted · comminuted fracture · comminution · commis · commis chef · commiserable · commiserate · commiseratingly · commiseration · commiserative · commiseratively · commiserator

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMINATIVE

collaborative · collective · comparative · conservative · cumulative · decorative · derivative · illustrative · imperative · in the negative · indicative · informative · initiative · innovative · investigative · legislative · narrative · operative · qualitative · quantitative · tentative

Synonyms and antonyms of comminative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «comminative» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF COMMINATIVE

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

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

Translator English - Chinese

comminative
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

comminative
570 millions of speakers
en

English

comminative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

comminative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

comminative
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

comminative
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

comminative
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

comminative
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

comminative
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kominatif
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

comminative
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

comminative
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

comminative
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Kominatif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

comminative
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

comminative
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कल्पक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

comminative
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

comminative
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

comminative
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

comminative
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

comminative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

comminative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

comminative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

comminative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

comminative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of comminative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMINATIVE»

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMINATIVE»

Discover the use of comminative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to comminative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Jeremy Bentham: Critical Assessments
The Sanctional Part as a Prediction When the sanction is to be administrated by the sovereign and consists in the threat of punishment, the sanctional part of the law is called the comminative part or the comminution (134). This part of a law, ...
Bhikhu C. Parekh, 1993
2
The Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
Where a threat of punishment is involved, the incitative part is called the comminative part; where a reward for obedience is promised, it is called the invitative part. Where reference is made to certain measures designed to remedy the damage ...
3
Bentham: Legal philosophy
Where a threat of punishment is involved, the incitative part is called the comminative part; where a reward for obedience is promised, it is called the invitative part. Where reference is made to certain measures designed to remedy the damage ...
Gerald J. Postema, 2002
4
An Introduction to the Study of Botany: In which the Science ...
Ex. Magnolia, Liriodendronj Prop. Bitter and tonic. Flowers fragrant. Ex. Magnolia. 14. WINTEREE. The Winter's Bark Tribe. Ex.Illicium. Prop. Stomachic and Comminative. 15. Calycanthus. Prop. Flowers aromatic and fragrant. 16. LAURINEE.
John Lee Comstock, 1835
5
The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature
... abscess seems difficult to determine. One of the principal signs is a doughy or ( Edematous feel of the integuments, but it is by the comminative and rational symptoms chiefly that the surgeon is to judge; but we presume 116 Selected Serines.
6
Bentley's Miscellany
Count Buol, therefore, begged that, at least, the commencement of the campaign might be comminative. Austria, too, might have feared, or rather affected to fear, that Russia, angered by the way in which the Cabinet of Vienna has turned ...
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, 1854
7
PRIMARY NON-FICTIONAL SOURCES VOLUME 6 Joseph Conrad: A ...
The ticket-collectors disperse. . . . Whether Conrad had any tickets the writer never knew. He certainly never showed them. ... lt is perhaps in that way that one oughtXo handle foreigners. ... Conrad remained wrapped in a comminative gloom, ...
8
Music and Text
... Queen's Epicedium, work on whose realization is contemporary with the Holy Sonnets.TM Certainly both the "saturated" melismas1' and comminative minims and semibreves are Baroque in inspiration. dcttb, you eum b«r leu la fin I tie* Of ...
Paul Driver, Rupert Christiansen, 1989
9
Spiritual Despotism
The inflexible integrity of the record, and its comminative intention, throws a dark colour over the general scene. If we knew nothing more of a man than what we might gather from the lips of his severe friend and admonitor, we might think some ...
Isaac Taylor, 1835
10
The Quarterly Journal of Foreign and British Medicine and ...
... but it is by the comminative and rational symptoms chiefly that the surgeon is to judge; but we presume to think, that it will be rare indeed, that any thing like certainty can be attained on this head ; and even though the surgeon is certain of  ...
John Anderson, 1823
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Comminative [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/comminative>. Jun 2026 ».
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