Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contaminative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-tam-i-na-tive
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That contaminates

Etymology

Etymology tree English contaminate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English contaminative From contaminate + -ive.

Inflected Forms

more contaminative (comparative) most contaminative (superlative)

Derived Forms

contaminatively noncontaminative

Questions

What does contaminative mean?: That contaminates
Where does contaminative come from?: Etymology tree English contaminate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English contaminative From contaminate + -ive.

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