monitive
/ˈmɒnɪtɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
A mood implying an unpleasant or undesirable future consequence.
Example Sentences
- "although considering the needfulness, and usefulness of them in respect to publick benefit ( as they are exemplary and monitive )"
- "They are distinguished by comprehensive thought, clear appreciation, great political sagacity, and dignified monitive earnestness."
- "Mr. Russell would have fixed the same monitive gaze upon a judge who kept him waiting at the bar; he depesonalized people and was impatient when they obtruded their irrelevant and incomprehensible selves upon him."
- "Maidu, too has a distinct combination of mood and aspect suffixes for a category labeled the 'monitive optative'."
- "Maidu, a language of northern California, shows a comparable set of inflectional mood suffixes: an indicative -'æ, an interrogative -ḱade, and intentive (Ø), a monitive -y?y for warnings, a hortative -á, a present imperative -pi, and an absent imperative -padá for actions to be carried out at a later time, in the absence of the speaker."
- "The temporal adverb gero 'afterward' (section 20.1.2.1) can occur as a monitive particle in imperative, jussive, and optative sentences."
Inflected Forms
more monitive (comparative)
most monitive (superlative)