cursive

comparative more cursive · superlative most cursive

1. Running; flowing.
2. Having successive letters joined together.

   Then Mambro handed me his manuscript, a sheaf of loose pages really, his cursive handwriting scrawled over them, the exaggerated tails of the f’s and the j’s, the distinct loop of the q.

   2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 269

3. grammarOf or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).

   cursive aspect

   2 more examples

   […] of the action or state of affairs expressed by the verb to the time of utterance; rather they express how the speaker regards the event: many grammarians distinguish between a constative aspect, in which an occurrence is simply registered as such, as something concluded, and a cursive aspect, in which the action is described in its course. (I need not add that this is an oversimplification, but there is no time for a more detailed account.)

   1978, The Bible Translator, volume 29, United Bible Societies, page 158

   [quoted text] “[…] future, nor an expression of non completed action, nor an expression of cursive aspect […] yiqtol usually expresses that an action will happen in the future, that it may, should or could happen: these are modal uses.”⁴⁰ Joosten even explains the indicative functions of the yiqtol in a modal […]

   2004, Albert H. Kamp, Inner Worlds: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to the Book of Jonah, Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 55

plural cursives

1. countableA cursive character, letter or font.
2. countableA manuscript written in cursive characters.
3. uncountableJoined-up handwriting.

   Antonyms: printing