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Adjustive

Definition: Adjustive

Adjustive

Adjective

1. Conducive to adjustment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

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Crosswords: Adjustive

English words defined with "adjustive": dysfunctionalnonadaptive. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Adjustive

DomainTitle

Books

  • Conjugate Gaze Adjustive Technique: An Introduction to Innovative Chiropractic Theory and Practice (reference)

  • The Determinants of Free Will: A Psychological Analysis of Responsible, Adjustive Behavior (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Adjustive

"Adjustive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adjustive" 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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Derivations: Adjustive

Derivations

Words ending with "adjustive": maladjustive. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Adjustive"

Words rhyming with "adjustive" (pronounced 'Ad*just"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Demissive, Denotive, Depressive, Desistive, Detractive, Digressive, Dilative, Directive, Discontentive, Dismissive, Dispersive, Disrespective, Disruptive, Dissentive, Distasteive, Distortive, Divertive, Enactive, Entreative, Erective, Exceptive, Excessive, Exertive, Exhaustive, Expective, Expressive, Extructive, Fluxive, Guessive, impressive, Improgressive, Incorruptive, Indefective, ineffective, Inexhaustive, inexpressive, infective, Infestive, Inflective, Inflexive, Inflictive, Influxive, Inoppressive, Inspective, instructive, Insuppressive, Interceptive, Interdictive, Interruptive, inventive, Investive, Irreflective, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Progressive, Protective, Protractive, recollective, reconstructive, Redressive, reflective, reflexive, refractive, regressive, rejective, repressive, Resentive, resistive, restrictive, Resultive, Retortive, retroactive, Revertive, secretive, selective, self-assertive, Self-elective, Sensive, sportive, suggestive, Superstructive, suppressive, tractive, Transgressive, Translative, Unexceptive, unexpressive, Unpleasive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Adjustive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-j-s-t-u-v"

-2 letters: datives, dauties, vistaed.

-3 letters: adieus, adjust, advise, audits, dative, dautie, davies, davits, divest, duties, duvets, jesuit, justed, sauted, staved, suited, visaed.

-4 letters: adieu, adits, adust, aides, aside, audit, dates, dauts, davit, deist, devas, diets, ditas, dites, divas, dives, duets, duits, duvet, edits, etuis, ideas, jades, jived, jives, judas, jutes, sated, saute, saved, sited, stade, staid, stave, stead, stied, suave, suite, tajes, tides, tsade, tsadi, uveas, vatus, vesta, vised, vista, vitae.

-5 letters: adit, aide, aids, aits, ates, aves, avid, dais, date, daut, deva, devs, dies, diet, dita, dite, dits, diva, dive, dues, duet, duit, dust, east, eats, edit, etas, etui, idea, ides, jade, jest, jets, jive, just, jute, juts, sade, sadi, said, sate, sati, save, seat, seta, side, site, stud, sued, suet, suit, tads, taus, tavs, teas, teds, tide, tied, ties, tuis, used, utas, uvea, vase, vast, vats, vatu, vaus, vest, vets, vide, vied, vies, visa, vise, vita.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-j-s-t-u-v"
 

+3 letters: maladjustive.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Adjustive


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

41 64 6A 75 73 74 69 76 65

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)

01000001 01100100 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#106 &#117 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 006A 0075 0073 0074 0069 0076 0065

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

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

357076878586758871

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INDEX

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


  

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