Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

proliferative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables: pro-lif-er-a-tive
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells.

adj

Proliferating; tending to proliferate.

noun

Such a cell

Example Sentences

"...stem cells may thus lose some of their proliferative potential and thus 'age'..."
"cultures of cells may be considered to have reached the end of their proliferative lifespan when the cell number fails to double."
"We conclude that aneuploidy causes not only a proliferative disadvantage but also a set of phenotypes..."
"...they give rise to a progressive, proliferative, chronic arthritis."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

more proliferative (comparative) most proliferative (superlative) proliferatives (plural)

Derived Forms

alloproliferative angioproliferative antiproliferative autoproliferative cytoproliferative endoproliferative fibroproliferative hematoproliferative hepatoproliferative hyperproliferative hypoproliferative immunoproliferative

Frequently Paired Words

proliferational

Questions

What does proliferative mean?: Of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells.
Where does proliferative come from?: Etymology tree English proliferate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English proliferative From proliferate + -ive.

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