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-ive
-ivesuff. Performing or tending toward a specified action: demonstrative. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -īvus, adj. suff.]-ive suffix 1. (forming adjectives) indicating a tendency, inclination, character, or quality: divisive; prohibitive; festive; massive. 2. (forming nouns of adjectival origin): detective; expletive. [from Latin -īvus]I've (aɪv) contraction of I have. -ive a suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc.: active; corrective; detective; sportive. [< Latin -īvus; in some words, representing French -ive, feminine of -if] EncyclopediaSeeIve |