Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

supplicative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sup-plica-tive
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to supplicate

Example Sentences

""Supplicative prayer, by contrast, is the more selfish version, in which one prays for rain, to pass an examination, to recover from an illness (or, less selfishly, for someone else to recover from an illness).""

Etymology

Etymology tree English supplicate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English supplicative From supplicate + -ive.

Inflected Forms

more supplicative (comparative) most supplicative (superlative)

Questions

What does supplicative mean?: Tending to supplicate
Where does supplicative come from?: Etymology tree English supplicate Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English supplicative From supplicate + -ive.

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