Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

imprecative

/ɪmˈpɹɛkətɪv/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: im-preca-tive
IPA: /ɪmˈpɹɛkətɪv/

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A grammatical mood, found in some languages, used for curses (in the sense of wishing harm) and marked by a different set of affixes than the optative mood, which is used for wishes in general.

adj

Pertaining to the imprecative mood.

Etymology

By surface analysis, imprecate + -ive.

Inflected Forms

imprecatives (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce imprecative?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪmˈpɹɛkətɪv/.
What does imprecative mean?: A grammatical mood, found in some languages, used for curses (in the sense of wishing harm) and marked by a different set of affixes than the optative mood, which is used for wishes in general.
Where does imprecative come from?: By surface analysis, imprecate + -ive.

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