REDRESSIVE

  

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REDRESSIVE

Definition: REDRESSIVE

REDRESSIVE

Adjective

1. Tending to redress.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"REDRESSIVE" is a common misspelling or typo for: regressive, repressive.



Synonym by domain: redressive duty (finance).

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Rhyming with "REDRESSIVE"

Words rhyming with "REDRESSIVE" (pronounced 'Re*dress"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Demissive, Denotive, Depressive, Desistive, Detractive, Digressive, Dilative, Directive, Discontentive, Dismissive, Dispersive, Disrespective, Disruptive, Dissentive, Distasteive, Distortive, Divertive, Enactive, Entreative, Erective, Exceptive, Excessive, Exertive, Exhaustive, Expective, Expressive, Extructive, Fluxive, Guessive, impressive, Improgressive, Incorruptive, Indefective, ineffective, Inexhaustive, inexpressive, infective, Infestive, Inflective, Inflexive, Inflictive, Influxive, Inoppressive, Inspective, instructive, Insuppressive, Interceptive, Interdictive, Interruptive, inventive, Investive, Irreflective, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Progressive, Protective, Protractive, recollective, reconstructive, reflective, reflexive, refractive, regressive, rejective, repressive, Resentive, resistive, restrictive, Resultive, Retortive, retroactive, Revertive, secretive, selective, self-assertive, Self-elective, Sensive, sportive, suggestive, Superstructive, suppressive, tractive, Transgressive, Translative, Unexceptive, unexpressive, Unpleasive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: REDRESSIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-r-r-s-s-v"

-1 letter: deservers.

-2 letters: derivers, derrises, deserver, deserves, desirers, devisees, devisers, diereses, disserve, dissever, dressier, redrives, reserved, reserves, residers, reveries, reversed, reverses, revisers.

-3 letters: deriver, derives, derries, deserve, desirer, desires, devisee, deviser, devises, diverse, dresser, drivers, redress, redries, redrive, reedier, reivers, rerises, reseeds, reserve, resider, resides, revered, reveres, reverie, reverse, revised, reviser, revises, rievers, seeders, seedier, serried, serries, servers, severed, severer, sirrees, veeries, versers.

-4 letters: derive, derris, desire, devise, dieses, divers, driers, driver, drives, eerier, eiders, reeved, reeves, reived, reiver, reives, rerise, reseed, resees, reside, resids, revere, revers, revise, riders, riever, risers, rivers, seders, seeder, seised, seiser, series, served, server, serves, severe, severs, sieved, sieves, sirees, sirree, sivers, veered, verier, versed, verser, verses, viseed.

-5 letters: deers, direr, diver, dives, drees, dress, drier, dries, drive, eerie, eider, erred, erses, redes, reeds, reeve, reive, resee, resid, rider, rides, riser, rises, rived, river, rives, seder, seeds, seers, seise, sered, serer, seres, serve, sever, sides, sieve, sired, siree, sires, siver, veers, verse, viers, vires, vised, vises.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-r-r-s-s-v"
 

+1 letter: vinedresser.

 

+2 letters: vinedressers.

 

+3 letters: overimpressed, rediscoveries.

 

+4 letters: overadvertises, prediscoveries.

 

+5 letters: adversarinesses, overdiversities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: REDRESSIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 44 52 45 53 53 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .    -..    .-.    .    ...    ...    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000100 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#68 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0044 0052 0045 0053 0053 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52393852395353435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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