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AFFRONTIVE

Definition: AFFRONTIVE

AFFRONTIVE

Adjective

1. Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AFFRONTIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)

Modern Translations: AFFRONTIVE

Language Translations for "AFFRONTIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

προσβλητικόσ (insulting, invective, offensive). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

affrontiveay

   

Ukranian 

  

кривдний (affronting, insulting, offending, offensive), образливий (abusive, affronting, contumelious, humiliating, injurious, insulting, mortifying, obloquious, obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious, ornery, outrageous, pettish, resentful, slanderous, touchy, umbrageous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "AFFRONTIVE"

Words rhyming with "AFFRONTIVE" (pronounced 'Af*front"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Demissive, Denotive, Depressive, Desistive, Detractive, Digressive, Dilative, Directive, Discontentive, Dismissive, Dispersive, Disrespective, Disruptive, Dissentive, Distasteive, Distortive, Divertive, Enactive, Entreative, Erective, Exceptive, Excessive, Exertive, Exhaustive, Expective, Expressive, Extructive, Fluxive, Guessive, impressive, Improgressive, Incorruptive, Indefective, ineffective, Inexhaustive, inexpressive, infective, Infestive, Inflective, Inflexive, Inflictive, Influxive, Inoppressive, Inspective, instructive, Insuppressive, Interceptive, Interdictive, Interruptive, inventive, Investive, Irreflective, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Progressive, Protective, Protractive, recollective, reconstructive, Redressive, reflective, reflexive, refractive, regressive, rejective, repressive, Resentive, resistive, restrictive, Resultive, Retortive, retroactive, Revertive, secretive, selective, self-assertive, Self-elective, Sensive, sportive, suggestive, Superstructive, suppressive, tractive, Transgressive, Translative, Unexceptive, unexpressive, Unpleasive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AFFRONTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-i-n-o-r-t-v"

-2 letters: favorite.

-3 letters: affront, fainter, forfeit, overfat.

-4 letters: affine, aroint, atoner, effort, fainer, forint, infare, invert, naiver, native, niffer, norite, orient, ornate, ratine, ration, ravine, renvoi, retain, retina, tariff, tavern, tonier, vainer, viator.

-5 letters: afire, afore, afrit, after, aiver, antre, atone, avert, avion, entia, envoi, faint, favor, feint, feria, fetor, fifer, finer, fiver, forte, fovea, frena, front, inert, infer, infra, inter, intro, invar, irate, irone, naevi, naive, niter, nitre, nitro, noria, noter, novae, oaten, oater, offer, often, ofter, orate, ovate, overt, ovine, ratio, raven, ravin, refit, retia, riant, riven, rivet, roven, tenia, tenor, terai, tinea, toner, train, trave, trine, trona, trone, trove, vireo, vitae, voter.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-i-n-o-r-t-v"
 

+2 letters: overstaffing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AFFRONTIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 46 46 52 4F 4E 54 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ..-.    ..-.    .-.    ---    -.    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000110 01000110 01010010 01001111 01001110 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#70 &#70 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0046 0046 0052 004F 004E 0054 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35404052494854435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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