Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

visive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: vi-sive
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to sight or the ability to see; visual.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"[T]he Infinitely wise Creator has not left the creature without a power of moving the head a little […] so that by these means they are inabled to direct some optick line or other against any object, and by that means they have the visive faculty as compleat as any Animal that can move its eyes."
"Hence it's evident, that vvere our Eyes turned into the Nature of Microſcopes, vve […] ſhou'd be derpiv'd of the foremention'd Advantage vve at preſent receive by the Viſive Faculty; and have left us only the empty Amuſement of Seeing, vvithout any other benefit ariſing from it."

Etymology

From post-classical Latin visīvus, from Latin vīsus (“sight, seeing”).

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

more visive (comparative) most visive (superlative)

Questions

What does visive mean?: Pertaining to sight or the ability to see; visual.
Where does visive come from?: From post-classical Latin visīvus, from Latin vīsus (“sight, seeing”).

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