arrestive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some [emotions] are Instigative, and others Arrestive."
- "This reactive recoiling from something clearly in our nature is itself unnatural. It is as arrestive of emotional progress as the opposite practice of uncontrolled indulgence, which is a symptom, not a cause, of emotional immaturity."
- "[…] most periodontal therapy aims to prevent the initiation, progression, or recurrence of periodontal diseases. This can be termed arrestive periodontal therapy."
- "As fast they pressed with laboring breath, Clinched teeth and knitted frown, The sharp, arrestive cry rang out,— “The color-bearer’s down!”"
- "I noted a curious streak of yellow in the silvered eyebrows, as if youth clung on, so to speak, by a single hair, and underneath these arrestive eyebrows green pupils alternately glowed and smouldered."
- "First, the reader notices in an O. Henry story the quiet but arrestive beginning."
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Inflected Forms
more arrestive (comparative)
most arrestive (superlative)