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ASSENTIVE

Definition: ASSENTIVE

ASSENTIVE

Adjective

1. Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: ASSENTIVE

Specialty definitions using "ASSENTIVE": refusal. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: ASSENTIVE

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Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Rhyming with "ASSENTIVE"

Words rhyming with "ASSENTIVE" (pronounced 'As*sent"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Fluxive, impressive, ineffective, inexpressive, infective, instructive, inventive, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Protective. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ASSENTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-s-s-t-v"

-1 letter: etesians, naivetes, teniases.

-2 letters: avenses, easiest, entases, entasis, etesian, invests, naivest, naivete, nasties, natives, sateens, savines, senates, sensate, sestina, sestine, tansies, tensive, tisanes, vainest, vinasse, vitesse.

-3 letters: anises, assent, easies, enates, envies, events, evites, insets, invest, naives, native, navies, nieves, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, sateen, satins, savine, savins, seines, senate, sevens, siesta, sieves.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-s-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: activeness, invertases, nativeness.

 

+2 letters: advisements, amativeness, evangelists, privateness, unassertive.

 

+3 letters: abortiveness, activenesses, adaptiveness, asseverating, asseveration, creativeness, everlastings, investigates, nativenesses, negativeness, nonassertive, reactiveness, reservations, sustentative, transceivers, transvestite, verticalness, vesuvianites, volatileness.

 

+4 letters: amativenesses, antislaveries, assertiveness, asseverations, attentiveness, combativeness, conservatives, conservatizes, eviscerations, evocativeness, expansivities, extraversions, imitativeness, intravenouses, inviolateness, lucrativeness, misadventures, normativeness, operativeness, overasserting, overassertion, plaintiveness, preservations, privatenesses, talkativeness, tentativeness, transgressive, transvestites, unassertively, valiantnesses, veritableness, versatileness, vexatiousness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ASSENTIVE


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

41 53 53 45 4E 54 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)

01000001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0053 0045 004E 0054 0049 0056 0045

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

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

355353394854435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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