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Definition: ILLUMINATIVE |
ILLUMINATIVEAdjective1. Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative. |
Date "ILLUMINATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Etymology: Illuminative \Il*lu"mi*na*tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression illuminatif.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ILLUMINATIVE |
| English words defined with "ILLUMINATIVE": Illuminary. (references) |
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| "ILLUMINATIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ILLUMINATIVE" is used about 24 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% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ILLUMINATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sqarues (explanatory, illuminating), ndriçues (electrician, illuminant, illuminating, luminous, radiant). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светлинен (illuminating, luminous), който хвърля светлина (illuminating), който изяснява (illuminating), осветителен (illuminant, illuminating). (various references) | |
Czech | osvìtlovací. (various references) | |
German | aufklärend (disabusing, illuming, undeceiving). (various references) | |
Greek | φωτιστικόσ (illuminating). (various references) | |
Hungarian | világító (illuminant, illuminating, lantern, luminous, self-luminous). (various references) | |
Manx | soilshagh (illuminant, light, lucent, lucid, luminescent, perspicuous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illuminativeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | luminoso (auroral, bright, clear, enlightening, illuminating, light, lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous, self-luminous), esclarecedor (enlightening, illumination, illustrious), brilho (blaze, bright, brightness, brillance, brilliance, brilliancy, burnish, eclat, effulgence, fire, flashing, glaze, glints, glisten, glitter, gloss, glossitis, glow, irradiation, lucidity, luminance, luster, lustre, lustre of fabric, polish, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, shine, varnish, vivacity). (various references) | |
Russian | освещающий, поучительный (cautionary, didactic, enlightening, instructive, sapiential). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukrasni (decorative, ornamental), svetleći (illuminating), osvetljavajući (illuminating). (various references) | |
Spanish | iluminativo. (various references) | |
Swedish | belysande (characteristik, illustrative). (various references) | |
Turkish | aydınlatıcı (elucidatory, enlightening, illuminant, illuminating, illustrative, informative), açıklayıcı (elucidatory, explanatory, expository, illuminating, illustrative, revealing). (various references) | |
Ukranian | роз'яснювальний, що освітлю", повчальний (didactic, edifying, exemplary, homiletic, homiletical, hortative, hortatory, informative, instructive, sapiential, sententious). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | soi sáng, rọi sáng (illuminating), chiếu sáng (illuminating). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "ILLUMINATIVE" (pronounced 'Il*lu"mi*na*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, Applicative, Appositive, Appreciative, Approbative, Appropriative, Approximative, Arbustive, Architective, Argumentative, Arrogative, Articulative, Asseverative, Assimilative, Associative, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Attestative, Auditive, Authoritative, Benedictive, Calculative, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circulative, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Coadjutive, Coagulative, Coercitive, Cogitative, Cognitive, Cognoscitive, Collative, Colliquative, Commemorative, Commiserative, Commonitive, Communicative, Commutative, Compellative, Competitive, Completive, Complimentative, Compositive, Compulsative, Compunctive, Conative, Concentrative, Conceptive, Concertative, Conciliative, Concretive, Condensative, Confederative, Confirmative, Confutative, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Connotative, Consecutive, Conservative, Considerative, Consignificative, Consolidative, Constitutive, Consultative, Consummative, Contamitive, Continuative, Contortive, Contributive, Convective, Conversative, Cooperative, Coordinative, Cosignificative, Costive, Creative, Criminative, Cucurbitive, Cumulative, Cunctative, Curative, Curvative, Deceptive, Declarative, Decorative, Decretive, Decussative, Defensative, Defunctive, Degenerative, Dehortative, Deletive, Denotative, Denunciative, Deoppilative, Depletive, Deprecative, Depreciative, Depurative, Derogative, Descriptive, Desiccative, Designative, Diffinitive, Diffractive, Disassimilative, Discerptive, Discretive, Discriminative, Dispensative, Dispositive, Disputative, Disquisitive, Disseminative, Dissipative, Dissociative, Dissolvative, Distinctive, Distractive, Dominative, Dormitive, Dubitative, Duplicative, Durative, Educative, Eductive, Edulcorative, Elaborative, Elative, Electro-motive, Eliminative, Elocutive, Elucidative, Emanative, Emotive, Emulative, Enervative, Ententive, Entitative, Enumerative, Enunciative, Erative, Estimative, Evacuative, Evocative, Exaggerative, Excalfactive, Excerptive, Excitative, Exclamative, Excrementive, Excretive, Exfoliative, Exhortative, Exonerative, Exortive, Expectorative, Expeditive, Experimentative, Explanative, Explicative, Explorative, Expositive, Exquisitive, Exsiccative, Extirpative, Extroitive, Exulcerative, Factitive, Factive, Facultative, Federative, Fermentative, festive, fictive, Finative, fixative, Flative, Forgetive, Fotive, Frequentative, fricative, Frigefactive, Fruitive, frustrative, furtive, generative, Germinative, Glutinative, gravitative, Gubernative, Hastive, Hesitative, Humective, illustrative, imaginative, Imbricative, Impeditive, Imperceptive, Impetrative, implicative, Imputative, inactive, inattentive, Inauthoritative, Incarnative, Incerative, Incitative, Incogitative, incommunicative, incorporative, Incubative, Indagative, Indescriptive, Indictive, Indiscriminative, Indistinctive, Induplicative, Indutive, Infiltrative, Infirmative, Inflammative, informative, Inirritative, Innative, innovative, Innutritive, inoperative, Inscriptive, insensitive, Insignificative, Insinuative, instinctive, Institutive, Insusceptive, Intellective, Intempestive, Intensative, Intensitive, Intentive, Interadditive, Interpenetrative, interpretative, interpretive, Interstinctive, intransitive, Introductive, introspective, intuitive, investigative, Irreceptive, Irrelative, irrespective, Irretentive, irritative, irruptive, iterative, Judicative, Jurisdictive, justificative, Lacerative, laxative, legislative, locative, lucrative, Magnetomotive, manipulative, Manumotive, Mediative, medicative, meditative, Memorative, Ministrative, Miscreative, Misrepresentative, mitigative, Modificative, Monitive, Mordicative, Multiplicative, Mundificative, Native, Nauseative, Nominative, Nonsensitive, Numerative, Nuncupative, Nutritive, Obliterative, Observative, Obstupefactive, Olfactive, Omnispective, Opinative, Opiniative, Opinionative, Oppilative, Oppositive, Ordinative, Originative, Ortive, Oscillative, Ostentive, Overdtive, Palative, Parthenogenitive, Participative, Parturitive, Pedomotive, Pejorative, Pendentive, Penetrative, Pensative, Perceptive, Perforative, Perspirative, Perturbative, Petrifactive, Philoprogenitive, Pignorative, Plaintive, Portative, Postpositive, Potestative, Poultive, Practive, Preceptive, Predestinative, Predicative, Preemptive, Prefigurative, Preformative, Prejudicative, Prepositive, Prerogative, Prescriptive, Presentative, Presumptive, Pretentative, Preteritive, Preventative, Probative, Procreative, Productive, Promotive. 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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: illuminate, illuminati. | |
-3 letters: multilane, multiline. | |
-4 letters: illative, illinium, illumine, minutiae, minutial, vitamine, vitellin, vituline. | |
-5 letters: ailment, aliment, alumine, alunite, eluvial, illuvia, initial, intimae, intimal, inutile, invital, levulin, liminal, lumenal, luminal, manille, militia, milline, minutia, mullein, mullite, nautili, unitive, vauntie, ventail, villain, villein, viminal, vitamin, vitelli. | |
| 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)49 4C 4C 55 4D 49 4E 41 54 49 56 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .-.. .-.. ..- -- .. -. .- - .. ...- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001100 01001100 01010101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I L L U M I N A T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004C 004C 0055 004D 0049 004E 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)434646554743483554435639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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