English Explanatory Dictionary

imprecative

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A grammatical mood, found in some languages, used for curses (in the sense of wishing harm) and marked by a different set of affixes than the optative mood, which is used for wishes in general.
adj
  1. Pertaining to the imprecative mood.

Pronunciation

/ɪmˈpɹɛkətɪv/

Word forms

imprecative imprecatives

Etymology

By surface analysis, imprecate + -ive.

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