presentive

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English

Etymology

From present +‎ -ive.

Adjective

presentive (not comparable)

  1. Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
    • 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.
  2. (grammar) Introducing or asserting the existence or occurrence of something in the present.

Antonyms

Noun

presentive (plural presentives)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “presentive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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