English Explanatory Dictionary

repletive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Tending to make replete; filling.
  2. Restorative; serving to replenish.
  3. Ubiquitious; everywhere; unbounded by physical constraints.
  4. Causing blood to flow to (a body part)
  5. Associated with oiliness and characterized by fullness or excess, such as with inflammation, swelling; mucus production, puss, etc.
  6. Pertaining to a phase of infilling.
  7. Implying or anticipating the subject which comes after the verb, as in "There is a house over there."

Word forms

repletive more repletive most repletive

Etymology

Compare French réplétif.

Antonyms

depletive

Related words

repletively
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