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-ive definition

-ive (iv)

  1. of, relating to, belonging to, having the nature or quality of sportive
  2. tending to, given to retrospective

Etymology: ME < OFr -if, fem. -ive < L -ivus

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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