protractive
/pɹəˈtɹæktɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing or delaying.
adj
Indicating an action or state that is ongoing or sustained.
adj
Example Sentences
- "He suffered their protractive arts."
- "In this case one half of the group had a contractive distraction imposed (decreasing work time) by a confederate; the other a protractive distraction (increasing work time)."
- "Such a function could only be used in the protractive approach to evaluate different states of the system , for it does not necessarily specify an established point of convergency ."
- "One inflected form of the durative verb is made with a long tense hold and without motion; the nuance in meaning is the same as that of the protractive modulation of adjectival predicates and translates as 'to stare at (uninterruptedly)' (figure 12.15b)."
- "The protractive, durational, and continuative morphemes are examples of nonpunctual modifications ."
- "Fleischmann (1990:22), Sebastian and Slobin (1994: 257-8) also discuss the classivication of so-called aspectual verbs into inchative verbs (e.g. empezar, to start), protractive verbs ( e.g. , quedarse, to remain), cumulative verbs ( e.g., continuar, to continue) and empletive verbs (e.g. acabar de, to finish).."
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
more protractive (comparative)
most protractive (superlative)