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REMISSIVE

Definition: REMISSIVE

REMISSIVE

Adjective

1. Remitting; forgiving; abating.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: REMISSIVE

English words defined with "REMISSIVE": Remissory. (references)

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Commercial Usage: REMISSIVE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Puritan, Paranoid, Remissive (reference)

  • Puritanism, paranoia, and the remissive (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: REMISSIVE

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

Albanian

  

që lehtëson, që jep falje. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏إهمال (default, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, easiness, forgetfulness, fribble, frowst, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, limbo, malpractice, neglect, negligence, omission, overlooking, remissness, slovenliness). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

който прави да отслабне, който прави да намалее, отслабващ (failing), опрощаващ, намаляващ (flagging, languishing, step down, thin, waney). (various references)

   

French

  

négligent (remiss). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megbocsátó (forgiving, lenient). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emissiveray

   

Romanian

  

iertãtor (forgiving, kind, merciful), diminuat (reduced), atenuat (attenuate, delicate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ослабляющий, прощающий. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji popušta, koji oprašta. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förlåtande (forgiving). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

l m giảm đi (relaxing), l m dịu đi; giảm đi, dịu đi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: REMISSIVE

Misspellings

"REMISSIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ravissime. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "REMISSIVE"

Words rhyming with "REMISSIVE" (pronounced 'Re*mis"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, Derisive, Descensive, Detersive, Diffusive, Dimensive, Discursive, Displosive, Dissuasive, Distensive, Divisive, Divulsive, Effusive, Elusive, Emissive, Emulsive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: REMISSIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-m-r-s-s-v"

-1 letter: emissive, miseries.

-2 letters: merises, merisis, messier, missive, remises, revises, verisms.

-3 letters: emesis, irises, misers, reives, remise, remiss, revise, seiser, series, serves, severs, sieves, sirees, sivers, verism, vermes, vermis, verses.

-4 letters: emirs, erses, issei, ivies, meres, mires, miser, mises, reive, rimes, rises, rives, seems, seers, seise, seism, semes, semis, seres, serve, sever, sieve, siree, sires.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-m-r-s-s-v"
 

+1 letter: impressive, permissive.

 

+3 letters: impoverishes, impressively, misbelievers, misperceives, permissively, timeservings, unimpressive, viscometries, viscosimeter.

 

+4 letters: impoverishers, misconceivers, nonpermissive, primitiveness, viscosimeters.

 

+5 letters: divertissement, imperativeness, imperviousness, impressiveness, multiversities, overimpressing, oversimplifies, permissiveness, vegetarianisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: REMISSIVE


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

52 45 4D 49 53 53 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)

01010010 01000101 01001101 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 004D 0049 0053 0053 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

523947435353435639

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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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