Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exemplative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-em-pla-tive
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Serving as or providing a typical example.

adj

Example Sentences

"The United Nations War Crimes commission had in fact approved the list and considered the enumerated acts are not exhaustive but exemplative war crimes."
"1987, "Some pitfalls in applied general equilibrium modeling", Jean Waelbroeck, in Advances in Econometrics: Fifth World Congress, Truman Fassett Bewley (ed), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 199, The discussion of applications will be exemplative only."
"Connely also refers to a scrolling feature, but provides no exemplative mechanism for allowing the light to travel along the sword."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exemplātīvus. Possibly attested once in Middle English, but re-borrowed as it is not attested again until the 19th century.

Inflected Forms

more exemplative (comparative) most exemplative (superlative)

Synonyms

illustrative demonstrative

Questions

What does exemplative mean?: Serving as or providing a typical example.
Where does exemplative come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin exemplātīvus. Possibly attested once in Middle English, but re-borrowed as it is not attested again until the 19th century.

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