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EXCEPTIVE

Definition: EXCEPTIVE

EXCEPTIVE

Adjective

1. That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: EXCEPTIVE

English words defined with "EXCEPTIVE": Unexceptive. (references)

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Commercial Usage: EXCEPTIVE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Numerically Exceptive Logic: A Reduction of the Classical Syllogism (American University Studies. Series V, Philosophy, Vol 112) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: EXCEPTIVE

Language Translations for "EXCEPTIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përjashtues (exclusive), i jashtëzakonshëm (egregious, emergency, exceeding, exceptional, exclusive, extraordinary, heroic, inconceivable, incredible, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, sole, stupendous, terrible, thumping, transcendent, transcendental, uncommon, unthinkable, unusual, wonderful). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متعلق على الإستثناء, ‏نادر (anecdotic, close, exceptional, few and far between, infrequent, out of the ordinary, phenomenal, rare, recherche, scarce, tight, uncommon, unusual), ‏إستثنائي (especial, exceptional, extraneous, extraordinary, freak, freaked, mighty, out of the ordinary, particular, phenomenal, premium, prodigious, rare, remarkable, singular, special, terrific, thundering, uncommon, unusual). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

придирчив (captious, carping, choosey, dainty, delicate, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, nice, particular, pernickety, queasy, squeamish), изключващ (tripping), изключителен (especial, exceptional, exclusive, extraordinary, inimitable, one in a thousand, phenomenal, rare, rousing, signal, super, superior, surpassing, unaverage, uncommon, unexampled, unique, unusual, vintage). (various references)

   

French

  

exceptionnel (exceptional, extraneous). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מת '" (adversary, adversative, antagonist, averse, defiant, dissident, enemy, opponent, opposed, sticky). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rendkívüli (exceptional, exquisite, extra, extra special, extraordinary, extreme, out of the ordinary, out of this world, outstanding, phenomenal, portentous, singular, steep, stupendous, supernormal, tiptop, uncommon, unusual, unwonted), kivételes (be exceptional, exceptional, extraordinary, extreme, out of the ordinary, rare, unique). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exceptiveay

   

Portuguese

  

exceptivo, excepcionalmente (apart from, but, except, other than, rarely, specially). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

excepţional (awful, beyond compare, exceptional, exceptionally, extraordinary, felicitous, fine, highly satisfactory, outstanding, rarely, smashing, special, topping, uncommon, wonderfully). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

составляющий исключение, придирчивый (cantankerous, captious, carping, contentious, hypercritical, overcritcal, pernickety, persnickety, quarrelsome, snappish), исключительный (exceptional, exclusive, only, out of the ordinary, out of the way, sole, surpassing, transcendent). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji čini izuzetak, izuzimanje (exemption), izuzetak (exception). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exceptuante. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

undantags- (exceptional). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

схильний заперечувати, уїдливий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, biting, carping, cattish, caustic, epigrammatic, fault finding, mordacious, mordant, pointed, smart, spiteful, waspish, waspy), винятковий (egregious, especial, exceptional, exclusive, only, particular, preternatural, single, singular, surpassing). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hay bẻ hoẹ, hay bẻ bai, để trừ ra, để loại ra; ngoại lệ hay phản đối. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: EXCEPTIVE

Misspellings

"EXCEPTIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acceptive, exective, exspectavi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EXCEPTIVE"

Words rhyming with "EXCEPTIVE" (pronounced 'Ex*cept"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, Desistive, Detractive, Digressive, Dilative, Directive, Discontentive, Dismissive, Dispersive, Disrespective, Disruptive, Dissentive, Distasteive, Distortive, Divertive, Enactive, Entreative. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EXCEPTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-p-t-v-x"

-2 letters: evictee.

-3 letters: except, excite, expect.

-4 letters: civet, evict, evite, peeve, piece, tepee.

-5 letters: cepe, cete, cite, epee, epic, etic, exec, exit, pice, veep, vext, vice.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-p-t-v-x"
 

+2 letters: expectative.

 

+4 letters: exteroceptive.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXCEPTIVE


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

45 58 43 45 50 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)

01000101 01011000 01000011 01000101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#67 &#69 &#80 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0043 0045 0050 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)

395837395054435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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