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Meaning of "alimentative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ALIMENTATIVE

alimentative  [ˌælɪˈmɛntətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ALIMENTATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Alimentative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ALIMENTATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of alimentative in the English dictionary

The definition of alimentative in the dictionary is of or relating to alimentation.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ALIMENTATIVE


argumentative
ˌɑːɡjʊˈmɛntətɪv
augmentative
ɔːɡˈmɛntətɪv
authoritative
ɔːˈθɒrɪtətɪv
consultative
kənˈsʌltətɪv
experimentative
ɪkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntətɪv
facultative
ˈfækəltətɪv
fermentative
fəˈmentətɪv
frequentative
frɪˈkwɛntətɪv
interpretative
ɪnˈtɜːprɪtətɪv
meditative
ˈmɛdɪtətɪv
misrepresentative
ˌmɪsrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪv
presentative
prɪˈzɛntətɪv
preventative
prɪˈvɛntətɪv
putative
ˈpjuːtətɪv
qualitative
ˈkwɒlɪtətɪv
quantitative
ˈkwɒntɪtətɪv
representative
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪv
tentative
ˈtɛntətɪv
unrepresentative
ˌʌnrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪv
vegetative
ˈvɛdʒɪtətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ALIMENTATIVE

aligner
alignment
alike
alikeness
aliment
alimental
alimentary
alimentary canal
alimentary tract
alimentation
alimentiveness
alimonied
alimony
aline
alineation
alinement
aliner
aliped
aliphatic
aliquant

WORDS THAT END LIKE ALIMENTATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
collaborative
comparative
conservative
cooperative
creative
cumulative
decorative
derivative
in the negative
informative
initiative
innovative
legislative
narrative
native
negative
operative
relative

Synonyms and antonyms of alimentative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «alimentative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ALIMENTATIVE

Find out the translation of alimentative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of alimentative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «alimentative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

体营养
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

alimentative
570 millions of speakers

English

alimentative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

alimentative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

alimentative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

alimentative
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

alimentative
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

alimentative
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

alimentative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Alimentatif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

alimentative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

alimentative
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

alimentative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Alimentatif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

alimentative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

alimentative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आहार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alimentative
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alimentative
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

alimentative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

alimentative
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

alimentative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

alimentative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

alimentative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

alimentative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

alimentative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of alimentative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ALIMENTATIVE»

The term «alimentative» is normally little used and occupies the 118.239 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of alimentative
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ALIMENTATIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «alimentative» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «alimentative» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about alimentative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALIMENTATIVE»

Discover the use of alimentative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to alimentative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Homo Novus - A Human Without Illusions
The phe- notype, thus, is the result of the interaction of a genotype with alimentative aspects of the environment. Alimentation deals with the ontogenetic development, its adaptational pressure aims at survival and its typical developmental ...
Ulrich J. Frey, Charlotte Störmer, Kai P. Willführ, 2010
2
Plant-parasitic nematodes
A.A. Paramonov. We may now outline two alternative paths of development: ontogeneses of eusaprobes, distinguished by exposed molting, speedy development after the second molt, alimentative nutrition of larvae in the first and second ...
A.A. Paramonov, 1968
3
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving
we try to analyse the process we shall find that it is in accord with any other alimentative process. Nature varies in details, but her intents and objects are fixed: to fit and sustain each to its appointed task. In the animal or vegetable kingdoms, ...
Bram Stoker, 2013
4
The Southern Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences
... to engender morbid processes ; and unless the quality of the alimentative matter, and the normal relation between, the supply and demand, be properly regulated, morbid processes will begin to show themselves sooner or later, aad when ...
5
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... nutrient, nutritive nutritional adj syn NUTRITIVE 1, alimentary, alimentative nutritious adj promoting growth and repairing natural waste < nutritious food > syn nourishing, nutrient, nutrimental, nutritive rel good, healthful, salubrious, salutary, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
6
The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness
Then the alimentative lady spoke in a loud and penetrating voice. " I am not in the habit of moving in what you call the circles of butchery, but since you do, perhaps you can tell me why the price of meat constantly foes up. I know it does," she ...
George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, 1909
7
Dynamic and Abnormal Psychology
Among alimentative factors, the hunger drive is more powerful than many well- fed persons realize. Commonly, men who have food work for other rewards; but when they cannot get it otherwise, they are likely to fight and steal to get food.
William Sentman Taylor, 1954
8
Companion to the History of Modern Science
So in all likelihood it comes to pass in the body, that all the parts are nourished, cherished, and quickned with blood, which is warm perfect, vaporous, full of spirit, and that I may so say, alimentative: in the parts the blood is refrigerated, ...
G N Cantor, G.N. Cantor, J.R.R. Christie, 2006
9
Popular Science
... if the analogy holds good, there can be only two kinds of diseases, the one dependent on abnormal states of the physiological units, the other on perturbation of their coordinating and alimentative machinery. Hence, the establishment of the ...
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10
Tirosh Lo Yayin: Or, The Wine Question Considered in an ...
highly nutritious alimentative preparations by the general name of poiprifiara ropheemata, (Latin sorbitiones), literally, suctiotu. The Hebrew D'ppfD mezukkakiym, here rendered " well refined," is the past participle in Pyhal of the verb ppj zakak ...
Frederic Richard Lees, 1841

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ALIMENTATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term alimentative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Mummy versus Maggi: Who will come out on top
In 1890, he founded the company Society Anonym pour la Fabrication des Products Alimentative Maggi (SAF) in Germany and Austria which ... «Hindustan Times, Jun 15»
2
'The Victims' Revolution,' by Bruce Bawer
... and preterition and alimentative into sentences, much in the manner of a malicious child shoving a stick into the spokes of a moving bicycle. «New York Times, Aug 12»

REFERENCE
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