Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exonerative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-on-er-a-tive
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

exonerating; tending to exonerate.

Example Sentences

"Journalist Radley Balko has coined the term “exonerative tense” for […] language structures [specifically designed to diminish the central, active role of police officers in the killings] to highlight their apparent aim of dampening negative judgments about the appropriateness of the officers’ actions."

Etymology

From exonerate + -ive.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: exonerate

Inflected Forms

more exonerative (comparative) most exonerative (superlative)

Phrases

past exonerative

Synonyms

disculpatory exculpatory vindicatory absolutionary absolutory absolving exonerative absolvitory forgiving

Questions

What does exonerative mean?: exonerating; tending to exonerate.
Where does exonerative come from?: From exonerate + -ive.

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