abstractive

1. 1.

   of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting

   “abstractive analysis”

   Similartheoretical

Questions about abstractive

What does abstractive mean?

abstractive means "of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting".

How many syllables are in abstractive?

abstractive has 3 syllables and divides as ab-strac-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is abstractive a common word?

abstractive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.