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ASPERSIVE

Definition: ASPERSIVE

ASPERSIVE

Adjective

1. Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: ASPERSIVE

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

Hebrew 

  

משמיץ (back biter, defamatory, defamer, disgraceful, libellous, slanderer, slanderous). (various references)

   

Manx

  

floutagh (abusive, distainful, flippant, lewdly jocular, mock, reproachful, scornful, scurrilous, slanderous, taunting, vituperative). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aspersiveay

   

Vietnamese 

  

vu khống; bôi xấu (aspersory), phỉ báng (aspersory, defamatory, libellous, libelous, slanderer), bôi nhọ (aspersory, smeary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ASPERSIVE"

Words rhyming with "ASPERSIVE" (pronounced 'As*pers"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Fluxive, impressive, ineffective, inexpressive, infective, instructive, inventive, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Protective. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ASPERSIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-v"

-1 letter: parvises, pavisers, previses.

-2 letters: aperies, asperse, aspires, pareses, paresis, parises, parvise, passive, paviser, pavises, peavies, praises, previse, repaves, revises, serapes, spavies, spireas, vespers.

-3 letters: aeries, aivers, arises, aspers, aspire, averse, easier, easies, erases, espies, pareve, paries, parses, parvis, passee, passer, pavers, pavise, peases, peises, pereia, perses, pisser, praise, prases, prises, raises, reaves, reives.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-v"
 

+1 letter: persuasive, vespiaries.

 

+2 letters: overpraises, privateness.

 

+3 letters: overemphasis, persuasively, superlatives, supermassive, unpersuasive.

 

+4 letters: operativeness, pervasiveness, preservations, preservatives, privatenesses.

 

+5 letters: imperativeness, overemphasizes, overexpansions, overpersuasion, perseverations, persuasiveness, superachievers, supergravities, vaporishnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ASPERSIVE


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

41 53 50 45 52 53 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)

.-    ...    .--.    .    .-.    ...    ..    ...-    .

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010011 01010000 01000101 01010010 01010011 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0050 0045 0052 0053 0049 0056 0045

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

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

355350395253435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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