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COMPUNCTIVE

Definition: COMPUNCTIVE

COMPUNCTIVE

Adjective

1. Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Compunctive \Com*punc"tive\, adjective. Sensitive in respect of wrongdoing; conscientious. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "COMPUNCTIVE"

Words rhyming with "COMPUNCTIVE" (pronounced 'Com*punc"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, festive, fictive, Flative, Fotive, furtive, inactive, inattentive, instinctive, introspective, irrespective, irruptive, Magnetomotive, Miscreative, Native, Obstupefactive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: COMPUNCTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-m-n-o-p-t-u-v"

-3 letters: pentomic, pivotmen, unpoetic.

-4 letters: centimo, cometic, compute, conceit, concept, convect, convict, ectopic, entopic, metopic, nepotic, occiput, pimento, pinetum, tonemic, uncomic, unvoice, vicomte.

-5 letters: centum, coempt, conium, impone, impute, incept, income, minuet, minute, motive, muonic, mutine, neumic, noetic, notice, novice, optime, outvie, pectic, pectin, pitmen, poetic, pointe, potmen, pounce, pumice, uptime.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COMPUNCTIVE


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

43 4F 4D 50 55 4E 43 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)

01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010101 01001110 01000011 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#85 &#78 &#67 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004D 0050 0055 004E 0043 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)

3749475055483754435639

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INDEX

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


  

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