Adjective: generative
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more generative |
| Superlative | most generative |
Sample Sentences
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That generative particle. [1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:]
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Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other. [1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 127:]
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The document states that despite its ongoing advancements, generative AI is liable to the United States’s current copyright principles, which take a strict stance on what material—human- or machine-made—qualifies for protection. [2025 January 30, Tessa Solomon, “AI Art Lacking ‘Human Expression’ Cannot Be Copyrighted, US Officials Say”, in ARTnews:]
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Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:]
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This ceremony seals the covenant in the flesh of the male generative organ. [2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 91:]
Adjectives inflected like generative
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
5. Proto-Italic *genos
6. Latin genus
7. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
12. Proto-Italic *-ājō
13. Proto-Italic *-āō
14. Latin -ō
15. Latin genero
16. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
17. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
18. Latin -īvus
19. Old French -ifbor.
20. Middle English -yf
21. Middle English generatyve
22. English generative
23. Inherited from Middle English generatyve. By surface analysis, generate + -ive. Compare French génératif. See: French Adjectives '
génératif'.
Verbs referencing "generative"
Finnish Adjectives
generatiivinen, Romanian Adjectives
generativ.