commentative

[ kom-uhn-tey-tiv ]

adjective

1. of or relating to comment or commentary.

Word History and Origins

Origin of commentative¹

First recorded in 1710–20; commentat(or) + -ive

Example Sentences

And because the plot still hinged on the rise of Naziism around 1930, the more modern outlook also ate away at the show’s period concept, which depended on a clear alternation between commentative cabaret numbers like “Two Ladies” and naturalistic “book” scenes dramatizing the lives of the characters.

From New York Times

The allusion to my brother Wilky's vividly independent verbal collocations and commentative flights re-echoes afresh, for instance, as one of the fond by-words that spoke most of our whole humorous harmony.

From Project Gutenberg

A woman who, unaided and alone, had worn the Bloomer costume for twenty years in the heart of a commentative community like Willoughby Pastures, was not likely to be without a cutting tongue for her defence.

From Project Gutenberg

Clemens was at this time working steadily on his so-called Autobiography, which was not that, in fact, but a series of remarkable chapters, reminiscent, reflective, commentative, written without any particular sequence as to time or subject-matter.

From Project Gutenberg

The latter was likely to be anecdotal and personal; the former was more often philosophical and commentative, ranging through a great variety of subjects scientific, political, sociological, and religious.

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