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Definition: EXPULSIVE |
EXPULSIVEAdjective1. Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel. |
Date "EXPULSIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Expulsive \Ex*pul"sive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression expulsif.]. (references) |
| "EXPULSIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXPULSIVE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "EXPULSIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dëbues (proscriptive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който изпъжда. (various references) | |
Czech | vyhnaný (outcast). (various references) | |
Danish | gingivitis expulsiva (expulsive gingivitis). (various references) | |
Dutch | pyorrhoea alveolaris (expulsive gingivitis), gingivitis expulsiva (expulsive gingivitis). (various references) | |
French | gingivite expulsive (expulsive gingivitis). (various references) | |
German | Gingivitis expulsiva (expulsive gingivitis). (various references) | |
Greek | αποβλητικόσ (repudiative). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kiûzõ. (various references) | |
Manx | ruightagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | expulsiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | expulsivo, exclusivo (exclusive). (various references) | |
Russian | изгоняющий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji može biti isključen. (various references) | |
Spanish | expulsivo. (various references) | |
Swedish | utdrivande (expulsion). (various references) | |
Turkish | kovan (barrel, beehive, case, hive, shell, snout, socket), çıkaran (monger, provoking). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що виганяє. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | để tống ra (ejective, expellent), để đuổi ra. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-p-s-u-v-x" | |
-2 letters: elusive, expulse. | |
-3 letters: exiles, expels, ilexes, levies, pelves, pelvis, pileus, pixels, plexus, silvex, vexils. | |
-4 letters: elves, evils, exile, expel, ileus, lexes, lexis, lieus, lieve, lives, luxes, peels, peise, peles, piles, pilus, pixel, pixes, plies, pules, pulis, pulse, sieve, silex, sleep, slipe, speel, speil, spiel, spile, veeps, veils, vexes, vexil. | |
-5 letters: eels, else, eves, evil. | |
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