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Definition: CONCENTRATIVE |
CONCENTRATIVEAdjective1. Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration. |
Date "CONCENTRATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
| "CONCENTRATIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONCENTRATIVE" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CONCENTRATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | sammenslutning (association, coalition, concentration, concentrative operation, interconnection, pool), koncentrativ afspaending (concentrative self-relaxation), JV-selskab oprettet i sammenslutningsøjemed (concentrative joint venture). (various references) | |
Dutch | verrichting met het karakter van een concentratie (concentrative operation), joint-venture (concentrative joint venture). (various references) | |
French | opération de concentration (concentrative operation), joint-venture concentrative (concentrative joint venture), entreprise commune de nature concentrative (concentrative joint venture), entreprise commune concentrative (concentrative joint venture), autorelaxation par concentration (concentrative self-relaxation). (various references) | |
German | konzentrierte (concentrated). (various references) | |
Greek | κοινή επιχείρηση με χαρακτήρα συγκέντρωσης (concentrative joint venture), πράξη συγκέντρωσης (concentrative operation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רכוזי (centralized). (various references) | |
Italian | operazione di concentrazione (concentrative operation), joint-venture di concentrazione (concentrative joint venture), impresa comune avente natura di concentrazione (concentrative joint venture). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oncentrativecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | operação com carácter de concentração (concentrative operation), empresa comum com carácter de concentração (concentrative joint venture), empresa comum com cáracter de concentração (concentrative joint venture), auto relaxamento por concentração (concentrative self-relaxation). (various references) | |
Spanish | operación de concentración (concentrative operation), empresa en participación que supone una concentración (concentrative joint venture), empresa en participación (concentrative joint venture, joint undertaking, joint venture). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CONCENTRATIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contestative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CONCENTRATIVE" (pronounced 'Con*cen"tra*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: concentrate, contractive, contrivance, noncreative, nonreactive. | |
-3 letters: concertina, connective, contravene, covenanter, enervation, interocean, reconvince, veneration. | |
-4 letters: accretion, accretive, ancienter, anorectic, carnotite, conceiver, concenter, connecter, contactee, container, convincer, crenation, entertain, innervate, nectarine, nervation, orientate, reconnect, recontact, reconvict, retention, vernation. | |
-5 letters: accentor, acentric, acetonic, anointer, anoretic, antevert, carotene, cavicorn, centiare, cicerone, coactive, cocinera, cocreate, coercive, coinvent, conative. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t-t-v" | |
+3 letters: overaccentuating. | |
+4 letters: overconcentration. | |
+5 letters: overconcentrations. | |
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