presentive

English

Etymology

From present +‎ -ive.

Adjective

presentive (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Denoting a conception or notion; depicting a tangible object.

   presentive words

2. (grammar) Introducing or asserting the existence or occurrence of something in the present.
   • 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:

     How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.

Related terms

• presentively
• presentiveness

Noun

presentive (plural presentives)

1. (grammar) A grammatical construct that introduces or asserts the existence or occurrence of something in the present.

References

• “presentive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pretensive, vespertine