Adjective: redressive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more redressive |
| Superlative | most redressive |
Sample Sentences
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And here can I forget the generous band
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Who touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd
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Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? [a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like redressive
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From redress + -ive.