confrontative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Popert believes that BP׳s circulation began to slip at least in part because of their growing timidity in offering confrontative coverage, not because of that coverage."
- "ONE reason women choose other women as targets “is probably some idea that they can find a less confrontative person or someone less likely to respond to aggression with aggression,” said Gary Namie, research director for the Workplace Bullying Institute, which ordered the study in 2007."
Etymology
From confront + -ative.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more confrontative (comparative)
most confrontative (superlative)