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RETRACTIVE

Definitions: RETRACTIVE

RETRACTIVE

Adjective

1. Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction.

Noun

1. That which retracts, or withdraws.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"RETRACTIVE" is a common misspelling or typo for: detractive, refractive, restrictive, retractile, retroactive.


Modern Translations: RETRACTIVE

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

Bulgarian 

  

свивателен, който може да се прибира (retractile). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zatažitelný (retractable, retractile). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανακλητικόσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

visszahúzódó (reserved, retractable, retractile). (various references)

   

Italian

  

retrattile (retractile). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etractiveray

   

Russian 

  

сократительный (contractile), втяжной (retractable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

retraktivan. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

indragande (retraction). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

утяжний (retractile), скорочувальний. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RETRACTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-r-t-t-v"

-2 letters: creative, reactive, tractive.

-3 letters: ariette, caterer, cattier, cavetti, cirrate, citrate, critter, erratic, iterate, rattier, reciter, recrate, retrace, retract, retreat, riveter, tearier, terrace, treater.

-4 letters: active, aerier, arrive, artier, attire, career, carter, carver, cattie, cerate, cerite, crater, craver, create, ecarte, irater, racier, ratite, ratter, reaver, recite, reiver, retear, retire, revert, riever, ritter, tarter, tearer.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-r-r-t-t-v"
 

+1 letter: retroactive.

 

+3 letters: retroactively.

 

+4 letters: nonretroactive, overarticulate, overextraction, refractivities.

 

+5 letters: hyperreactivity, overarticulated, overarticulates, overextractions, radioprotective, retroactivities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RETRACTIVE


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

52 45 54 52 41 43 54 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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