DISCOURSIVE

Definition: DISCOURSIVE

DISCOURSIVE

Adjective

1. Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man.

2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.

3. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.

Noun

1. The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: DISCOURSIVE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Conversation	Adjective: conversing; Verb: interlocutory; conversational, conversable; discursive, discoursive; chatty; (sociable); colloquial.
Dissertation	Adjective: discursive, discoursive; disquisitionary; expository.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Usage Frequency: DISCOURSIVE

"DISCOURSIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DISCOURSIVE" is used about 2 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)

Anagrams: DISCOURSIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-o-r-s-s-u-v"
	-1 letter: discursive.
	-2 letters: discourse, discovers, virucides.
	-3 letters: codrives, cursives, desirous, devisors, diecious, discover, diuresis, divisors, divorces, oversuds, ovicides, sciurids, sciuroid, scurvies, suicides, virucide.
	-4 letters: cirsoid, cissoid, codrive, coursed, courses, crossed, cruised, cruises, cursive, devious, devisor, devoirs, devours, divisor, divorce, dossier, dousers, ericoid, escudos, iodises, ivories, ovicide, sciurid, scoured, scrived, scrives, serious, sourced, sources, sucrose, sudsier.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-o-r-s-s-u-v"
	+2 letters: nondiscursive.
	+3 letters: diverticuloses, diverticulosis.
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