Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

putrefactive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pu-tre-fac-tive
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction.

Example Sentences

"And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]"

Inflected Forms

more putrefactive (comparative) most putrefactive (superlative)

Derived Forms

antiputrefactive putrefactiveness

Synonyms

putrefacient

Rhymes With

active attractive interactive radioactive inactive reactive proactive unattractive refractive hyperactive extractive overactive

Questions

What does putrefactive mean?: Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction.

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