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Postpositive Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ive

Postpositive has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

A postpositive modifier.

Adjective
1

(of a modifier) placed after another word

2

Placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast, or as part of a complement, as in those two men are bad.

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Rhyming Words
vive zive give yive jive wive tive rive five bive dive live hive skive blive shive alive snive chive swive
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