Adjective: narrative
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more narrative |
| Superlative | most narrative |
Sample Sentences
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But wise through time, and narrative with age. [1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:]
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the narrative thrust of a film
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There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future. [2004 January 10, Galen Strawson, “Review: Making Stories by Jerome Bruner”, in The Guardian:]
Adjectives inflected like narrative
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
Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”). By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ive.
Verbs referencing "narrative"
Swedish Adjectives
narrativ.