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Factive

noun
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.noun(grammar) A factive verb.
2.adjective(grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
"You can't say that somebody "discovered" the Moon to be made of green cheese, because "discover" is a factive verb and the Moon isn't made of green cheese."
3.adjective(of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.

Synonyms

stativefactfulventivelicensabledynamiceventivevocablerealisgrammaticalizableformalizableactionablevolitional

Rhymes With

attractiveactiveproactiveinactivereactiveinteractivehyperactiveradioactive
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