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PRONUNCIATION OF PREFIGURATIVE

prefigurative  [priːˈfɪɡərətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREFIGURATIVE

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

WHAT DOES PREFIGURATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prefigurative in the English dictionary

The definition of prefigurative in the dictionary is suggestive of or imagining beforehand; prophetic or looking towards the future.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREFIGURATIVE


alliterative
əˈlɪtərətɪv
collaborative
kəˈlæbərətɪv
commemorative
kəˈmɛmərətɪv
configurative
kənˈfɪɡərətɪv
cooperative
kəʊˈɒpərətɪv
corroborative
kəˈrɒbərətɪv
curative
ˈkjʊərətɪv
decorative
ˈdɛkərətɪv
evaporative
ɪˈvæpərətɪv
figurative
ˈfɪɡərətɪv
generative
ˈdʒɛnərətɪv
iterative
ˈɪtərətɪv
non-cooperative
nɒnkəʊˈɒpərətɪv
nonfigurative
ˌnɒnˈfɪɡərətɪv
operative
ˈɒpərətɪv
postoperative
pəʊstˈɒpərətɪv
preoperative
priːˈɒpərətɪv
proliferative
prəˈlɪfərətɪv
regenerative
rɪˈdʒenərətɪv
ulcerative
ˈʌlsərətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREFIGURATIVE

preferred stock
preferrer
preferring
prefeudal
prefight
prefigurate
prefiguration
prefiguratively
prefigurativeness
prefigure
prefigurement
prefile
prefinance
prefire
prefix
prefixal
prefixally
prefixed
prefixion
prefixture

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREFIGURATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
comparative
conservative
creative
cumulative
derivative
illustrative
in the negative
informative
initiative
innovative
legislative
narrative
native
negative
qualitative
quantitative
relative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of prefigurative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prefigurative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREFIGURATIVE

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

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prefigurativo
570 millions of speakers

English

prefigurative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prefigurative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prefigurative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

префигуративные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prefigurativo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prefigurative
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

préfigurative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prefigurative
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prefigurative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prefigurative
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prefigurative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prefigurative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prefigurative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prefigurative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Prefigurative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oluşturucuydu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prefigurativo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prefigurative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

префигуративной
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prefigurativă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προεικόνισης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prefigurative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prefigurative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prefigurative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prefigurative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREFIGURATIVE»

The term «prefigurative» is used very little and occupies the 170.215 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREFIGURATIVE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREFIGURATIVE»

Discover the use of prefigurative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prefigurative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist Organizing, ...
Prefigurative politics and strategies need to be flexible and constantly evolving. There can be a danger of prefigurative politics coming to mean a handful of practices and strategies that are always used. For example, I believe in the need for ...
Chris Crass, 2013
2
Watershed Research Traditions in Human Communication Theory
Their answer is prefigurative force, which is, it will be remembered, an individual's sense that one's actions are determined by forces around one. Practical force refers to the sense an individual has that one's action serves one's own purpose ...
Donald P. Cushman, Branislav Kova?i?, 1995
3
Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct ...
There is always a prefigurative element in radical politics, or at least a pull toward prefigurative politics, because without an effort to live one's values radical claims collapse into hypocrisy. There is also a pull to accommodate to the existing ...
Barbara Epstein, 1991
4
Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics
artists and popular culture workers are simultaneously shaping new pos- sibilities for human experience including, for the purposes of this edited volume, new possibilities for political thought and action. The Arts and Prefigurative Politics The ...
Nancy S. Love, Mark Mattern, 2013
5
On the Edge of Commitment: Educational Attainment and Race ...
I will therefore focus development of the stochastic decision tree model in this chapter on the construction of purposive-prefigurative commitment, reserving for subsequent chapters the development of possible ways to introduce reinforcing and ...
Stephen Lawrence Morgan, 2005
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Community Gardening as Social Action
The prefigurative repertoire–likeany 'culturally' focused repertoire–isfrequently dismissed asapolitical or naïvely utopian. At times,thesecritiques are based on an understanding that proponents see prefigurative repertoires as sufficient to ...
Claire Nettle, 2014
7
Children as Decision Makers in Education: Sharing ...
Historically, prefigurative movements developed in opposition to forms of Marxism that looked to a revolution headed by a strong party as the most effective way of achieving the goal of the socialist society. In these consequentialist forms, the ...
Sue Cox, Caroline Dyer, 2010
8
Rethinking Citizenship Education: A curriculum for ...
Drawing on empirical research, the book argues that attempting to transmit preconceived notions of citizenship through schools is both unviable and undesirable.
Tristan McCowan, 2011
9
Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity
TAPGs and prefigurative KPM Thus we arrive at the importance, within the organic crisis, of prefigurative KPM, as a companion to the day-to-day engagement with concrete issues that forms an indispensable ground for counter -hegemonic ...
Yildiz Atasoy, 2014
10
More Man Than You'll Ever be: Gay Folklore and Acculturation ...
This last point can be better understood if we consider the gay world in terms of three cultural styles described by Margaret Mead in Culture and Commitment, the postfigurative, the cofigurative, and the prefigurative. In postfigurative cultures ...
Joseph P. Goodwin, 1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREFIGURATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prefigurative is used in the context of the following news items.
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Where do we go from ILP?
How we choose to engage with our own contradictions is prefigurative in the sense that it will shape the future course of the movement and its ... «KanglaOnline, Jul 15»
2
What No One Is Talking About When They Talk About Greece
With real consistency, they've seen themselves engaged in something prefigurative; forging new ways of organizing social life – life that will ... «Gawker, Jul 15»
3
Moving beyond the squares: anticipating the debate
This is bound to happen with this sort of prefigurative politics—that's the academic word for it – given its obsession with internal democracy and ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
4
Freedom fighters: freelancing as direct action
In sociology we call this type of behaviour prefigurative politics, meaning that individuals are choosing to act as if they live in the world they ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
5
The Old Testament and Rationalistic Biblical Criticism by …
... more lofty understanding of it is revealed, shadowy and prefigurative. Many of the Fathers of the Church teach us to prefer the spiritual aspect ... «NFTU, May 15»
6
Obama's police reform plans emphasize optics. Black lives matter …
Policing has been data-driven, enabling problematic prefigurative profiling (read: race-based patrolling) for decades; the least that can be done ... «Fusion, May 15»
7
IWW Introduction and Prefigurative Politics recordings from …
This presentation invites discussion to unpack the idea of “prefigurative politics”, suggesting a distinction between the “regular” anarchist case ... «Indymedia UK, May 15»
8
A New Christian Zionism
... completes it by linking it typologically with the narrative of Jesus and disclosing a deeper prefigurative truth within the literal historical sense. «First Things, May 15»
9
Russell Brand is a confused social democrat - his call to vote Labour …
This willingness to break the mould of passive protest, and the implicit emphasis on the prefigurative politics that has remained a feature on the ... «Open Democracy, May 15»
10
Past and Future Struggles for Indymedia: Lessons from Urbana …
According to Downing, the anarchist principles of prioritizing movements over institutions, emphasis on prefigurative politics and focus on direct ... «Toward Freedom, Apr 15»

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