Meanings
adjectivereversive (not comparable)
- not comparablehuman sciencesDesignating the reversion of an action.
The reversive suffix only occurs with quite a small number of verbs that all denote an action of placing an object in a certain position, which is inherently reversible[…]
2000, Maria Soukka, A descriptive grammar of Noon: a Cangin language of Senegal
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Rhymes with reversive
recursivesubversiveimmersivecursivediscursivedispersiveaversiveconversivenonrecursiveabstersiveadversiveanimadversiveantidiscursiveantisubversiveaspersivecompersivecontraversiveco-recursivecounterdiscursivecountersubversivecyberdiscursivedetersiveelectrodispersiveeversive
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reversive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reversive
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“reversive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reversive. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reversive,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reversive.
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