appointive

1. 1.

   relating to the act of appointing

   “appointive powers”
2. 2.

   subject to appointment

   Synonymsappointed

   Antonymselective

   Similarnominatednonelective

Questions about appointive

What does appointive mean?

appointive means "relating to the act of appointing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appointive?

appointive has 3 syllables: ap-poin-tive. The stress falls on "poin". In IPA it is /əˈpɔɪntɪv/.

What is another word for appointive?

Close synonyms include appointed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of appointive?

The recorded antonyms are elective.

Is appointive a common word?

appointive 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.