retroactive infinitive
noun
(Grammar ) (especially in O. Jespersen's terminology) an active infinitive that has a preceding noun as its object.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), linguist.
- unabating
- unable
- Unabomber
- unabridged
- unabsorbed
- unacademic
- unaccented
- unacceptability
- unacceptable
- unacceptableness
- unacceptably
- unaccommodating
- unaccompanied
- unaccomplished
- unaccountability
- unaccountable
- unaccountableness
- unaccountably
- unaccounted
- unaccredited
- unaccustomed
- unaccustomedly
- unachievable
- unacknowledged
- una corda