Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

DESISTIVE

Definition: DESISTIVE

DESISTIVE

Adjective

1. Final; conclusive; ending.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Desistive \De*sist"ive\, adjective. [See Desist.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "DESISTIVE"

Words rhyming with "DESISTIVE" (pronounced 'De*sist"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, Detractive, Digressive, Dilative, Directive, Discontentive, Dismissive, Dispersive, Disrespective, Disruptive, Dissentive, Distasteive, Distortive, Divertive, Enactive, Entreative, Erective. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: DESISTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: deities, devests, devises, divests, visited, vitesse.

-3 letters: deists, desist, devest, devise, dieses, diesis, divest, evited, evites, seised, sieved, sieves, steeds, teiids, tidies, vested, viseed, visits.

-4 letters: deets, deist, diets, dites, dives, edits, evite, issei, ivied, ivies, seeds, seise, sides, sieve, sited, sites, steed, stied, sties, teiid, tides, vests, vised, vises, visit.

-5 letters: dees, deet.

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

+1 letter: digestives.

 

+2 letters: adversities, disinvested, diversities.

 

+3 letters: divestitures, medievalists.

 

+4 letters: disincentives, disinvestment, subjectivised.

 

+5 letters: biodiversities, definitiveness, derivativeness, diminutiveness, disinvestments, disruptiveness, diverticuloses, divertissement, meditativeness, radiosensitive, vindictiveness.

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

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: DESISTIVE


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

44 45 53 49 53 54 49 56 45

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

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

=

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)

01000100 01000101 01010011 01001001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#83 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0053 0049 0053 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)

383953435354435639

Top     

 

INDEX

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


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.