reversive

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English

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Etymology

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From reverse +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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reversive (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Designating the reversion of an action.
    • 2000, Maria Soukka, A descriptive grammar of Noon: a Cangin language of Senegal:
      The reversive suffix only occurs with quite a small number of verbs that all denote an action of placing an object in a certain position, which is inherently reversible []