Meanings
- not comparableMaking, or concerned with, propositions or proposals (e.g., suggestions, hypotheses).
Synonyms: propositional
- not comparablemedicineIntentional.
Synonyms: volitional · Antonyms: tremorous, stereotypic, nonvolitional, unintentional
- not comparableKorean languagehuman sciencesa specific verb form in the Korean language, also sometimes called the hortative or subjunctive assertive.
"Imperative and propositive (ie, 'let us V type) sentences were excluded. "
1997, Young-joo Kim, “The Acquisition of Korean,”, in The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 4172 more examples
"This auxiliary verb ma-l- occurs only in the imperative, propositive and gerund forms."
1950, Sang Soon Yun, Introduction to Spoken Korean, page 250"First, adjectives are distinguished from verbs in that they do not have imperative or propositive forms."
2000, Iksop Lee, Samuel Robert Ramsey, The Korean Language, page 101
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveMaking, or concerned with, propositions or proposals (e.g., suggestions, hypotheses).
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