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tussive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tus-sive
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Related to, caused by, or accompanied by a cough

Etymology

From Latin tussis + -ive.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more tussive (comparative) most tussive (superlative)

Derived Forms

antitussive hypertussive posttussive protussive

Frequently Paired Words

tussal

Questions

What does tussive mean?
Related to, caused by, or accompanied by a cough
Where does tussive come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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