ViaFrenchadmiratif or directly from its etymon,Medieval Latinadmirativus.
admirative (comparativemoreadmirative,superlativemostadmirative)
- Characterized byadmiration.
characterized by admiration
admirative (pluraladmiratives)
- (An instance of) a verb form similar tomirative, found primarily in some languages of theBalkan sprachbund (i.e. namelyAlbanian,Bulgarian andMacedonian), which expresses surprise, irony, doubt, orreportedness on the part of the speaker(comparemirative).
Translations
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:驚奇式 /惊奇式(jīngqíshì)
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- ↑1.01.1“admirative”, inDictionary.com Unabridged,Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑2.02.12.2“admirative”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ↑3.03.1James A. H. Murrayet al., editors (1884–1928), “Admirative”, inA New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumeI (A–B), London:Clarendon Press,→OCLC.
- ↑4.04.1“admirative”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
- ^William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “admirative”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
admirative
- femininesingular ofadmiratif
