Meanings
adjectivedictative (comparative more dictative, superlative most dictative)
comparative more dictative · superlative most dictative
- dictatorial
The one principle is truly educational; the other is dictative. The one principle embodies the idea and fact of manly freedom; the other, the idea and fact of degrading tyranny.
1851, Joshua Toulmin Smith, Local Self-government and Centralization, page 328
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dictative
creativedativestativelativeuncreativeanticreativecastrativecollativeconstativedilativeelativeequativeflativeillativeinduplicativeinflativeinnativemiscreativemutativenear-nativenon-nativeoptativeplacativeprecreative
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APA
dictative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictative
MLA
“dictative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictative. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dictative,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictative.
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