Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

asseverative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: as-sev-er-a-tive
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

adj

Serving to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.

noun

A linguistic structure that serves to emphasize the certainty or truth of a statement.

Example Sentences

"Further, it is strongly possible that the emphatic or asseverative lamed is etymologically distinct from the preposition, though the Masoretes do not distinguish the two."
"A prosthetic 'aleph was added in Hebrew […] and this gave a graphemic distinction between the negative and the asseverative, but the asseverative nevertheless eventually disappeared in Hebrew and other Canaanite dialects."
"Delimiting the forms which belong to the asseverative paradigm can be achieved only for some of the forms based on morphological criteria alone."

Etymology

From asseverate + -ive.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: asseverate

Inflected Forms

more asseverative (comparative) most asseverative (superlative) asseveratives (plural)

Derived Forms

asseveratively

Questions

What does asseverative mean?: Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
Where does asseverative come from?: From asseverate + -ive.

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