transportive

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adjective

Serving to transport to another place.

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Meanings

adjectivetransportive (comparative more transportive, superlative most transportive)

comparative more transportive · superlative most transportive

  1. Serving to transport to another place.

    For all the hype and initial success of devices like the Kindle, they threaten to strip traditional books of much of their transportive appeal.

    2009 April 5, Brad Stone, “Is This the Future of the Digital Book?”, in New York Times

Origin

From transport + -ive.

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Cite this entry
APA

transportive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transportive

MLA

“transportive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transportive. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transportive,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transportive.

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