Assimilative

Definition: Assimilative

Assimilative

Adjective

1. Tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated); "an assimilative pattern"; "an assimilative process".

Date "assimilative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Etymology: Assimilative \As*sim"i*la*tive\, adjective. [Compare to Late Latin assimilativus, French assimilatif.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Assimilative

Synonyms: assimilating (adj), assimilatory (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Assimilative

English words defined with "assimilative": assimilating, assimilatory. (references)

Specialty definitions using "assimilative": Septic system ♦ Waste Load Allocation. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Assimilative memory, or, How to attend and never forget (reference) Ausländische Jugendliche : assimilative Integration, Kriminalität und Kriminalisierung und die Rolle der Jugendhilfe (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Assimilative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Assimilative" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	4	175,879

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "assimilative": surface-assimilative.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "assimilative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		同化 (Assimilate, Assimilated, Assimilating). (various references)

Danish		assimilationskapacitet (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), selvrensningsevne (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), selvrensende kapacitet (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power). (various references)

Dutch		assimilatiecapaciteit van het milieu (assimilative capacity of the environment), zelfreinigend vermogen (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), natuurlijke zuiveringscapaciteit (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power). (various references)

French		pouvoir d'auto-épuration (assimilative capacity), pouvoir auto-épurateur (assimilative capacity), pouvoir auto-épurant (assimilative capacity), capacité d'auto-épuration (assimilative capacity), capacité d'assimilation de l'environnement (assimilative capacity of the environment), capacité d'assimilation de la pollution par l'environnement (assimilative capacity of the environment), capacité d'assimilation de la mer (assimilative capacity of the sea), capacité d'épuration naturelle (assimilative capacity). (various references)

German		anpassend (accomodating, adaptational, adapting, assimilating, conforming, leveling, matching, paralleling). (various references)

Greek		αφομοιωτικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		asszimiláló. (various references)

Italian		potere autodepurativo (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), potere autodepurante (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), capacit� di autodepurazione (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), capacit� auto-depurante (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power). (various references)

Pig Latin		assimilativeay

Portuguese		capacidade de autopurificação (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), capacidade de auto-depuração (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power). (various references)

Russian		ассимилирующий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		asimilativan. (various references)

Spanish		poder de autodepuración (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), poder autodepurador (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), capacidad de autodepuración (assimilative capacity, self-cleaning capacity, self-purification capacity, self-purifying capacity, self-purifying power), capacidad de asimilación del mar (assimilative capacity of the sea). (various references)

Ukrainian		асимілюючий. (various references)

Vietnamese		có sức đ�"ng hoá dễ tiêu hoá (assimilatory), đ�"ng hoá (assimilatory). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Assimilative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assimiliative. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "assimilative" (pronounced 'As*sim"i*la*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-i-l-m-s-s-t-v"
	-2 letters: assimilate.
	-3 letters: salivates, vitalises, vitalisms.
	-4 letters: aestival, atavisms, elitisms, malaises, maltases, militias, mislives, salivate, slimiest, vitalise, vitalism.
	-5 letters: aimless, aliases, amative, amities, atavism, atlases, aviates, elitism, estival, ileitis, laities, liaises, limiest, limites, malaise, malates, maltase, massive, matless, mavises, militia, miseats, mislies, mislive, misseat, missile, missive, mitises, salamis, salivas, salties, salvias, samiels, samites, samlets, savates.
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