repletive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Restorative; serving to replenish.
adj
adj
Associated with oiliness and characterized by fullness or excess, such as with inflammation, swelling; mucus production, puss, etc.
adj
Pertaining to a phase of infilling.
adj
Implying or anticipating the subject which comes after the verb, as in "There is a house over there."
Example Sentences
- "Tea and coffee, with sugar and milk, are very repletive beverages taken with wholesome food, and any child of five years old, and a common share of common sense, would laugh at the idea of smoke and snuff, and tea and coffee being put in the same category."
- "In the mean-term control, these repletive effects of ingested materials influence the amount eaten or drunk (in 24 h, for example) by determining the meal or draught frequency (Le Magnen & Tallon 1963, 1966 , Le Magnen 1971 )."
- "The repletive effect of various foods, related to either their respective caloric density or their specific properties as nutriments, acts as a reinforcer in a "conditioning" of palatability."
- "And his fulness is not only repletive, but diffusive; a fulness of plenty and abundance, but of bounty also and redundance."
- "It shows clearly that the only true mode of obtaining thorough ventilation is by the exhaust system or pumping the air out, under some circumstances combined with the repletive system of forcing the air in ."
- "Such, however, is the insistency that penny postage can not long be delayed and will come, and under such circumstances the postal authorities would do well to cast about for repletive revenue."
Etymology
Compare French réplétif.
Inflected Forms
more repletive (comparative)
most repletive (superlative)