PRECATIVE

Meaning of PRECATIVE in English

adj. (of a word or form) expressing a wish or request.

[ LL precativus f. precari pray ]

Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012

PRECATIVE — I. ˈprekəd.iv adjective Etymology: Late Latin precativus, from Latin precatus (past participle of precari to entreat, pray) + -ivus -ive …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRECATIVE — adj. (of a word or form) expressing a wish or request. [LL precativus f. precari pray]
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PRECATIVE — adj. (of a word or form) expressing a wish or request. Etymology: LL precativus f. precari pray
Oxford English vocab
PRECATIVE — Synonyms and related words : adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appealing, begging, beseeching, cadging, devotional, devout, entreating, imploring, in the dust, mendicant, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRECATIVE — (книжное) выражающий мольбу, просьбу; просительный
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PRECATIVE — = precatory
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PRECATIVE — (a) выражающий мольбу; просительный
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
PRECATIVE — = precatory
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PRECATIVE — = precatory
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PRECATIVE — adj. просительный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PRECATIVE — adj. просительный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PRECATIVE — (книжное) выражающий мольбу, просьбу; просительный
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
BENEDICTIVE — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷tiv adjective Etymology: Late Latin benedict us (past participle of benedicere to bless) + English -ive of a set of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRECATORY — /prek"euh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/ , adj. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or expressing entreaty or supplication: precatory overtures. Also, precative /prek"euh …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WORSHIPING — Synonyms and related words : admiring, adorant, adoration, adoring, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, co-worship, cult, cultism, cultus, deifying, devotion, devotional, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
WORSHIPFUL — Synonyms and related words : Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, acknowledged, admiring, admitted, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, august, awe-inspiring, awed, awesome, awestricken, awestruck, …
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VENERATIVE — Synonyms and related words : Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, believing, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deifying, …
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SUPPLICATORY — Synonyms and related words : adorant, adoring, begging, cadging, devotional, devout, imploring, in the dust, mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, …
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SUPPLIANT — Synonyms and related words : adorant, adorer, adoring, applicant, asker, aspirant, beadsman, beggar, begging, bidder, cadging, candidate, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoer, …
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SOLEMN — Synonyms and related words : Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, arid, aristocratic, august, awe-inspiring, awed, awesome, awestricken, awestruck, …
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SCROUNGING — Synonyms and related words : abstraction, annexation, appropriation, beggary, begging, bone-lazy, boosting, bumming, cadging, conversion, conveyance, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, dronish, …
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REVERENT — Synonyms and related words : Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, believing, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deifying, …
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PROSTRATE
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PRAYERFUL — Synonyms and related words : Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, adorant, adoring, begging, believing, cadging, cultish, cultist, cultistic, devoted, devotional, devout, dutiful, …
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PLEADING — Synonyms and related words : adjuratory, answer, appealing, argument, argumentum, bar, begging, beseeching, case, cons, consideration, counsel, counterstatement, defense, demurrer, …
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MENDICANT — Synonyms and related words : Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Waldensian, abbacomes, abbot, abstainer, abstinent, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, beadsman, …
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IMPLORING — Synonyms and related words : adjuration, adjuratory, adorant, adoring, appeal, appealing, begging, beseeching, beseechment, bid, call, clamor, cry, devotional, devout, …
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DEVOUT — Synonyms and related words : Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, abandoned, active, adorant, adoring, afire, ardent, assured, believing, burning, certain, churchgoing, committed, …
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BEGGING — Synonyms and related words : adjuratory, appealing, beggary, beseeching, bumming, cadging, entreating, imploring, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mooching, panhandling, petitionary, pleading, …
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APPEALING — Synonyms and related words : achingly sweet, adjuratory, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, alluring, appetizing, ariose, arioso, attracting, attractive, begging, beguiling, beseeching, bewitching, …
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ADORING — Synonyms and related words : Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, affectionate, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, believing, conjugal, cultish, cultist, cultistic, …
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