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Meaning of "preteritive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRETERITIVE

preteritive  [prɪˈtɛrɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRETERITIVE

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

WHAT DOES PRETERITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of preteritive in the English dictionary

The definition of preteritive in the dictionary is having only past tense forms.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRETERITIVE


additive
ˈædɪtɪv
aperitive
əˈpɛrɪtɪv
capacitive
kəˈpæsɪtɪv
cognitive
ˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
competitive
kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv
creative
kriːˈeɪtɪv
definitive
dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv
fugitive
ˈfjuːdʒɪtɪv
innovative
ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv
integrative
ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtɪv
interpretive
ɪnˈtɜːprɪtɪv
intuitive
ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv
native
ˈneɪtɪv
nonnutritive
ˌnɒnˈnjuːtrɪtɪv
nutritive
ˈnjuːtrɪtɪv
positive
ˈpɒzɪtɪv
primitive
ˈprɪmɪtɪv
repetitive
rɪˈpɛtɪtɪv
secretive
ˈsiːkrɪtɪv
sensitive
ˈsɛnsɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRETERITIVE

preterhuman
preterist
preterit
preterite
preteriteness
preterition
preterm
preterminal
pretermination
pretermission
pretermit
pretermitted
pretermitter
pretermitting
preternatural
preternaturalism
preternaturality
preternaturally
preternaturalness
preterperfect

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRETERITIVE

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

Synonyms and antonyms of preteritive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «preteritive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRETERITIVE

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

Translator English - Chinese

preteritive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

preteritive
570 millions of speakers

English

preteritive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

preteritive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

preteritive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

preteritive
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

preteritive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

preteritive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

preteritive
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Preteritive
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

preteritive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

preteritive
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

preteritive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Preteritive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

preteritive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

preteritive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्राधान्यक्रम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

preteritive
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

preteritive
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

preteritive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

preteritive
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

preteritive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

preteritive
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

preteritive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

preteritive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

preteritive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of preteritive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRETERITIVE»

The term «preteritive» is normally little used and occupies the 143.804 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRETERITIVE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRETERITIVE»

Discover the use of preteritive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to preteritive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The American Journal of Education
So providence, genius, vengeance, war, autumn, lily, etc., are used sometimes as masculine, and sometimes as feminine. PRETERITIVE VERBS IN ENGLISH. It is well known that there are preteritive verbs in Latin ; as, coepi, I begin ; memini, ...
Henry Barnard, 1856
2
American Journal of Education
So providence, genius, vengeance, war, autumn, lily, etc., are used sometimes as masculine, and sometimes as feminine. PRETERITIVE VERBS IN ENGLISH. It is well known that there are preteritive verbs in Latin ; as, coepi, I begin ; memini, ...
‎1856
3
Bright's Ango-Saxon Reader
PRETERITIVE PRESENT VERBS. (S. §§ 417-425.) 105. (1) There are some verbs which, in all the Germanic languages, employ in the present exclusively ( Indicative and Optative) forms of original ablaut prek erits (the original presents being ...
James R. Hulbert, 2008
4
The American Journal of Education and College Review
It is well known'that there are preteritive verbs in Greek; as, 07501, I know. But it is not so well known that there are also preteritive verbs in English, because the evidence of their possessing this character is only partially exhibited in the ...
‎1856
5
Elementary Lessons, Being a Course of Instruction for the ...
The genius of our language requires that when several clauses of a sentence are connected together by the conjunction that expressed or understood, (and often too by other conjunctions,) if the first or principal verb be in a preteritive tense, ...
Harvey Prindle Peet, 1850
6
The school Latin grammar
Many verbs.which form their tenses regularly, a*e more or less defective ; but, of these, Preteritive verbs, Impersonal verbs, and verbs specially Defective, particularly demand attention. PRETERITIVE VERBS. The verbs, coepi, memini, and odi, ...
Alexander Martin (rector of the grammar sch, Aberdeen.), 1869
7
Dutch Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress ...
7 The preteritive Ak- tionsart (formed with prefix po- and corresponding to what nowadays is referred to as the DELIMITATIVE AKTIONSART) defines undefined time, which is also shorter than with the perdurative prze-compound, and lacks a  ...
H. Peter Houtzagers, Peter Houtzagers, Janneke Kalsbeek, 2008
8
Lessons in Latin parsing: containing the outlines of the ...
Preteritive Verbs* These three, odi, capi, and memini, are only used in the preterite tenses, (those derived from the perfect,) and therefore are called preteritive verbs ; though they have sometimes likewise a present signification ; thus, Odi, ...
Chauncey Allen Goodrich, 1832
9
Descriptive Syntax of the Old English Charters
Preteritive-Present Verbs pres. ind. sg. 2nd pers. -st pret. ind. sg. 2nd pers. -est Anomalous Verbs beon/is/wesan don gan Willan pres. ind. sg. 1st pers. eom —- _ — pres. ind. sg. 2nd pers. eart, bist dest gzest wilt pres. ind. sg. 3rd pers. is, bib  ...
Charles Merritt Carlton, 1970
10
Ethics for a Brave New World, Second Edition (Updated and ...
Thus, the preteritive view is in trouble. As noted, some understand porneia as a reference to marriage to pagan idolaters, but most think it refers to serious sexual sin. The major views on its meaning are: (1) illicit sexual relations during the ...
John S. Feinberg, Paul D. Feinberg, 2010

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Preteritive [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/preteritive>. Apr 2024 ».
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