Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

causative

/ˈkɔzətɪv/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.68 in modern English

Syllables: caus-at-ive
IPA: /ˈkɔzətɪv/

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Acting as a cause.

adj

Involving, or affected by, causality.

adj

Expressing a cause or causation.

noun

An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

Example Sentences

"Causative in nature of a number of effects."
"Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative."
"The ablative is a causative case."

Etymology

From French causatif, from Latin causātīvus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause (verb) and -ive.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkɔzətɪv/
British English: /ˈkɔːzətɪv/

Inflected Forms

causatives (plural)

Derived Forms

anticausative anticausativisation causatively causativeness causativity causativization causativize intercausative multicausative

Phrases

causative verb

Frequently Paired Words

curative

Synonyms

occasional

Antonyms

noncausative

Rhymes With

positive dispositive

Questions

How do you pronounce causative?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɔzətɪv/.
What does causative mean?: Acting as a cause.
Where does causative come from?: From French causatif, from Latin causātīvus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause (verb) and -ive.

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