interruptive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

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adj

"Oh, well, gee, look, if this communiqué is in any way—uh—sleep-interruptive, I'll—uh—re-telephone you later."
"“Advertising being an annoying, interruptive medium, ‘Hello’ is kind of a nice salutation, a friendly way of introducing yourself,” said Lee Clow, chairman and chief creative officer at the TBWA Worldwide unit of the Omnicom Group who has long worked for Apple."

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

more interruptive (comparative) most interruptive (superlative)

interruptively interruptiveness uninterruptive

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What does interruptive mean?

Acting or tending to interrupt

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