contentive

[ kuhn-ten-tiv ]

noun

, Linguistics.

1. a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Compare functor ( def 2 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of contentive¹

content ¹ + -ive

Example Sentences

If one place of it be moorish, miry, and unpleasant, another makes a free tender of delight, and presents itself to the eye full of beauty and contentive variety.”

From Project Gutenberg

Woods and waterfalls beautify and enliven the landscape; shady dells and rocky glens lie within an easy walk, and the trip by rail to Pickering abounds with “contentive variety.”

From Project Gutenberg

They have also particular Names taken from the Inventers of them, or from their Effect; as Expulsive Bandages to drive back, Attractive to draw forward, Contentive to contain, Retentive to restrain, Divulsive to remove, Agglutinative to rejoin, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a healthful sickness in the soul, a pleasing passion in the heart, a contentive labour in the mind, and a peaceful trouble of the senses.

From Project Gutenberg