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Definitions: Ostensive |
OstensiveAdjective1. Manifestly demonstrative. 2. Represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ostensive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: OstensiveSynonym: ostensible (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ostensive |
| English words defined with "ostensive": ostensive definition, Ostensive demonstration, Ostensively. (references) |
| "Ostensive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ostensive" is used about 12 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% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ostensive": ostensive definition ♦ ostensive demonstration. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ostensive": ostensive-inferential. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ostensive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Farsi | متظاهر (Braggadocio, Hypocritical, Ostentatious, Prude, Simulator), تظاهرامیز. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | scheinbar (apparent, apparently, feigned, formal, imaginary, ostensible, seeming, seemingly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostensiveay удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, pretended, professed, put on, seeming, shoddy, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), явний (apparent, bald-faced, barefaced, blatant, broad, declared, evident, Frank, obvious, ostensible, overt, patent, perspicuous, pronounced, unequivocal, visible), наочний (apparent, demonstrable, demonstrative, descriptive, ocular, visual), прямий (above board, bald, barefaced, bounden, candid, direct, downright, erect, forthright, outright, outspoken, perpendicular, plainspoken, point blank, spadish, straight, straightforward, through), показний (affected, catchpenny, conspicuous, flashy, imposing, meretricious, orchidaceous, ostensible, ostentatious, portly, presentable, pretentious, showy, specious, sporty, stagey, stagy), переконливий (cogent, commanding, conclusive, convictive, convincing, decisive, demonstrative, forcible, persuasive, powerful, stringent). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ostensive": ostensively. (additional references) | |
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"Ostensive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ascensive, obstensive, ostensibe, ostensively, ostresov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ostensive" (pronounced 'Os*ten"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, illusive, impassive, incisive, inclusive, incomprehensive, inconclusive, incursive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, Nonsubmissive, Obtrusive, Occasive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-o-s-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: essonite. | |
-2 letters: eosines, invests, nosiest, sestine, soviets, tensive, vitesse. | |
-3 letters: enosis, envies, envois, eosine, eosins, essoin, events, evites, insets, invest, nieves, noesis, noises, onsets, ossein, ovines, seines, setons, setose, sevens, sieves, sonsie, soviet, steins, stenos, stones, stoves, tenses, venose, vetoes. | |
-4 letters: envoi, eosin, evens, event, evite, inset, neist, nests, neves, nieve, nites, noise, noses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-o-s-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: venosities, votiveness. | |
+2 letters: costiveness, nervosities, ostensively, slovenliest, televisions. | |
+3 letters: abortiveness, asseveration, hypotensives, insectivores, nonassertive, nonsensitive, positiveness, reservations, sportiveness, venesections, volatileness, votivenesses. | |
+4 letters: asseverations, combativeness, conservatives, conservatizes, controversies, costivenesses, enteroviruses, eviscerations, evocativeness, extraversions, extroversions, intravenouses, introgressive, inviolateness, normativeness, normotensives, objectiveness, obtrusiveness, operativeness, overasserting, overassertion, overinsistent, oversensitive, overstressing, preservations, promotiveness, retroversions, sovereignties, superventions, vexatiousness, viscountesses, volunteerisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 73 74 65 6E 73 69 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O s t e n s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0073 0074 0065 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498586718085758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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