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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024e•la•tive (ē′lə tiv, el′ə-),USA pronunciation [Gram.]adj. - Grammarnoting a case, as in Finnish, whose function is to indicate motion out of or away from.
n. - Grammaran elative case.
- Grammaran adjectival form, as in Arabic, denoting intensity or superiority, approximately equivalent to the comparative and superlative of other languages.
- Latin ēlāt(us) (see elate) + -ive
- 1585–95
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