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SUBSTITUTIVE

Definition: SUBSTITUTIVE

SUBSTITUTIVE

Adjective

1. Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SUBSTITUTIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Etymology: Substitutive \Sub"sti*tu`tive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression substitutif, from Latin expression substitutivus conditional.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: SUBSTITUTIVE

Synonyms by domain: cystoplasty (medicine), substitutive direction signing (post & telecom, transportation), substitutive execution (law), substitutive grafting of the bladder (medicine), substitutive monocytosis, substitutive power (public administration).

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Crosswords: SUBSTITUTIVE

Specialty definitions using "SUBSTITUTIVE": substitute goods, substitutional goods. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SUBSTITUTIVE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hinge axis determination of the mandible : an investigation of the accuracy of mandibular hinge axis determination by the kinematic method as compared with substitutive approximations (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: SUBSTITUTIVE

"SUBSTITUTIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SUBSTITUTIVE" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SUBSTITUTIVE

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

Hebrew 

  

תמורתי (substitutional), תחליפי (substitutional). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ubstitutivesay

   

Vietnamese 

  

để thay thế, để thế. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SUBSTITUTIVE

Derivations

Words beginning with "SUBSTITUTIVE": substitutively. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SUBSTITUTIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: substitutue. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "SUBSTITUTIVE"

Words rhyming with "SUBSTITUTIVE" (pronounced 'Sub"sti*tu`tive'): Administrative, Constitutive, Frigefactive, Manumotive, Procreative, Resolutive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SUBSTITUTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-i-s-s-t-t-t-u-u-v"

-2 letters: substitute.

-4 letters: bittiest, bustiest.

-5 letters: busiest, butties, subsite, subtest, titbits, titties, tubists, tussive, tutties, uveitis, vibists.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-i-s-s-t-t-t-u-u-v"
 

+2 letters: substitutively.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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