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Definition: PURSIVE |
PURSIVEAdjective1. Pursy. |
Note: Pursive \Pur"sive\, adjective. Pursy. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | PURSY, or PURSIVE. Short-breathed, or foggy, from being over fat. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PURSIVE |
| Specialty definitions using "PURSIVE": PURSY. (references) |
| Words rhyming with "PURSIVE" (pronounced 'Pur"sive'): Aborsive, Abrasive, Abusive, Accessive, Adhesive, Admissive, Aggressive, Allusive, Amusive, Animadversive, Anticonvulsive, Appeasive, Applausive, Apprehensive, Appulsive, Ascensive, Assuasive, Coextensive, Cohesive, Collisive, Collusive, Commissive, Comprehensive, Compulsive, Concessive, Conclusive, Concussive, Confusive, Congressive, Conversive, Convulsive, Corrasive, Corresponsive, Decursive, Delusive, illusive, impassive, incisive, inclusive, incomprehensive, inconclusive, incursive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, Nonsubmissive, Obtrusive, Occasive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-p-r-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: uprise, vipers. | |
-2 letters: peris, piers, pries, prise, puris, purse, ripes, rives, sieur, sirup, siver, speir, spier, spire, sprue, super, viers, viper, vires, virus. | |
-3 letters: ires, peri, pier, pies, pure, puri, purs, reis, reps, revs, ripe, rips, rise, rive, rues, ruse, sipe, sire, spiv, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user, vier, vies, vise. | |
-4 letters: ers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-p-r-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: pervious, previous, purviews, uprivers, viperous. | |
+2 letters: eruptives, prelusive, pulverise, purposive, repulsive, supervise. | |
+3 letters: disruptive, impervious, percussive, persuasive, poxviruses, preclusive, previously, propulsive, protrusive, proviruses, pulverised, pulverises, pulverizes, purgatives, supervised, supervises, supervisor, superwives, supportive, viperously. | |
+4 letters: herpesvirus, oversupping, persecutive, prelusively, presumptive, pulverising, pulverizers, purposively, repulsively, sempervivum, sporulative, superlative, supervening, supervirile, supervising, supervision, supervisors, supervisory, suppressive, suppurative, vituperates. | |
| 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)50 55 52 53 49 56 45 |
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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)01010000 01010101 01010010 01010011 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P U R S I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0055 0052 0053 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)50555253435639 |
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