Definitions for factitive

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factitive fac·ti·tive

Spelling: [fak-ti-tiv]

IPA: /ˈfæk tɪ tɪv/

Factitive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in factitive (acefiittv).

Definitions for factitive

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.

Origin of factitive

1840-50; New Latin factitīvus, equivalent to factit- (stem of Latin factitāre to do often, practice, declare (someone) to be) + -īvus -ive

Examples for factitive

This is also called the predicate objective or the factitive object.

This word completing a transitive verb is sometimes called a factitive object, or second object, but it is a true complement.