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Definitions: EXFOLIATIVE |
EXFOLIATIVEAdjective1. Having the power of causing exfoliation. Noun1. An exfoliative agent. |
Etymology: Exfoliative \Ex*fo"li*a"tive\, adjective. [Compare to French expression exfoliatif.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: EXFOLIATIVE |
| Specialty definitions using "EXFOLIATIVE": Epidermal Necrolysis, Toxic, Exfoliatins. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | General Exfoliative Epidemic Dermatitis.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "EXFOLIATIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXFOLIATIVE" is used about 20 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% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
exfoliative dermatitis | 12 |
exfoliative keratolysis | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "EXFOLIATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | eksfoliativ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | exfoliatief. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | exfoliatif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | esfoliativus, entblätternd (defoliating), lamellös schuppend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποφολιδωτικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | esfoliativo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | exfoliativeay exfoliativo. (various references) exfoliativo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "EXFOLIATIVE" (pronounced 'Ex*fo"li*a"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, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, Depletive, Descriptive, Diffractive, Discerptive, Discretive, Distinctive, Distractive, Eductive, Elative, Electro-motive, Emotive, Ententive, Excalfactive, Excerptive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-i-l-o-t-v-x" | |
-2 letters: exfoliate. | |
-3 letters: fixative. | |
-4 letters: elative, filiate, foliate, foveate, foxtail, violate. | |
-5 letters: etoile, fetial, fixate, foetal, folate, foveae, foveal, iolite, oleate, oxtail, velate, violet. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 58 46 4F 4C 49 41 54 49 56 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01011000 01000110 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E X F O L I A T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0058 0046 004F 004C 0049 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3958404946433554435639 |
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