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Definition: Stative |
StativeAdjective1. (grammar) expressing existence or a state rather than an action; used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Stative \Sta"tive\, adjective. [Latin expression stativus, from stare, statum, to stand.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Antonym: active (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stative |
| Non-English Usage: "Stative" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (tripods). |
| "Stative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stative" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stative verb | 11 |
stative | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | состояния. (various references) | |
Spanish | de estado (d'etat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stative": statives. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "stative": constative, devastative. (additional references) | |
Words containing "stative": constatives. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "stative" (pronounced 'Sta"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, festive, fictive, Flative, Fotive, furtive, inactive, inattentive, instinctive, introspective, irrespective, irruptive, Magnetomotive, Miscreative, Native. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-s-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: vittae. | |
-2 letters: state, stave, taste, tates, teats, testa, vesta, vista, vitae, vitta. | |
-3 letters: aits, ates, aves, east, eats, etas, sate, sati, save, seat, seta, sett, site, stat, stet, tate, tats, tavs, teas, teat, test, tets, ties, tits, vase, vast, vats, vest, vets, vies, visa, vise, vita. | |
-4 letters: ais, ait, ate, att, ave, eat, eta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-s-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: estivate, statives, vastiest, vitiates. | |
+2 letters: activates, aestivate, cavitates, estivated, estivates, levitates, motivates, optatives, privatest, tantivies, tipstaves, titivates, vastities, vastitude, vaultiest, veritates. | |
+3 letters: activities, aestivated, aestivates, captivates, constative, cultivates, estimative, estivating, estivation, gravitates, nativities, negativist, novitiates, relativist, tentatives, tittivates, transitive, travestied, travesties, vastitudes, ventifacts, ventilates, vitalities. | |
+4 letters: abstractive, adventitias, adventurist, aestivating, aestivation, antitussive, assortative, captivities, constatives, contrastive, deactivates, devastating, devastation, devastative, distractive, estivations, extractives, harvesttime, inactivates, initiatives, instigative, investigate, levitations, negativists, overstating, reactivates, recitatives, recitativos, relativists, remotivates, restorative, stimulative, substantive, subtractive, translative, travertines, travestying, vaticinates, vegetations, ventilators, versatility, vituperates. | |
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