adventive

1. 1.

   not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized

   “an adventive weed”

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Questions about adventive

What does adventive mean?

adventive means "not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized".

How many syllables are in adventive?

adventive has 3 syllables and divides as ad-ven-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 adventive a common word?

adventive is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.