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Definition: RECREATIVE |
RECREATIVEAdjective1. Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting. |
Date "RECREATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Synonyms by domain: amenity area (building & civil engineering, sports & leisure), land for recreative use, leisure area, leisure zone, recreation area, recreative fishing (food & agriculture, sports & leisure), recreative function (sports & leisure), Recreative International Centre (social sciences), recreative society (law). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "RECREATIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "RECREATIVE" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
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 |
industry recreative | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "RECREATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | argëtues (amusing, diverting, frolic, humorous, jocose, rollicking, voluptuous), çlodhës (recuperative, restful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منعش (animating, bracing, cool, cooling, exhilarating, fresh, invigorative, reanimating, recreating, refreshing, restorative, resuscitating, resuscitative, reviving, stimulating, stimulative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | освежителен (dewy, recreational, refreshing, winy), ободряващ (cheery, recreational, tonic), занимателен (amusing, entertaining, interesting, recreational, sportful), забавен (amusing, comic, comical, delayed, diverting, entertaining, funny, interesting, laughable, merry, recreational, sportful), за развлечение (recreational). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | osvìžující (bracing, exhilarating, refreshing, refrigerant, restful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | récréatif, divertissant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erholsam (refreshing, relaxing, restful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναψυκτικόσ (refrigerant), διασκεδαστικόσ (amusing, entertaining, humorous, killing), ψυχαγωγικόσ (recreational). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felüdítõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ricreativo (recreational). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aachrooagh (restorative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecreativeray recreativo (amusing, funny), que serve para recrear, que recreia. (various references) recreativ (light). (various references) развлекающий (diverting), восстанавливающий силы (recuperative). (various references) razonodan, zabavan (amusing, comical, diverting, droll, entertaining, sportful, sportive), osvežavajući (refreshing), okrepljujući (bracing, corroborant, restorative). (various references) recreativo. (various references) rekreativ. (various references) eğlendirici (diverting, entertaining, fun, funny, hilarious), dinlendirici (balmy, balsamic, calming, quiet, relaxing, reposeful, restful, soothing). (various references) розважальний (diverting, entertaining, sportful, sportive), освіжаючий (refreshing, refrigerant). (various references) tiêu khiển (amusing), giải trí (diverting, entertaining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-r-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: creative, erective, reactive, receiver, recreate, retrieve. | |
-3 letters: caterer, cirrate, erecter, erratic, evictee, receive, reciter, recrate, reerect, retiree, retrace, reverie, riveter, tearier, terrace. | |
-4 letters: active, aerier, arrive, artier, career, carter, carver, cerate, cerite, crater, craver, create, ecarte, eerier, irater, racier, reaver, recite, reiver, retear, retire, revere, revert, riever, tearer, terrae, tierce, tracer, varier, verier, verite. | |
-5 letters: aerie, airer, aiver, areic, arete, avert, carer, caret, carte, carve, cater, caver, cavie, ceria, citer, civet, crate, crave, crier, eater, eerie, erect, erica, evert, evict, evite, irate, racer, rater, raver, react, reave, recta, recti, reeve, reive, retia, retie, revet, ricer, river, rivet, tarre, terai, terce, terra, trace, trave, triac, trice, trier, vatic, vicar, vitae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-i-r-r-t-v" | |
+2 letters: recuperative. | |
+3 letters: hyperreactive. | |
+4 letters: overcentralize, refractiveness. | |
+5 letters: overcentralized, overcentralizes. | |
| 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)52 45 43 52 45 41 54 49 56 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. .-. . .- - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000011 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E C R E A T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0043 0052 0045 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)52393752393554435639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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