appropriative

1. 1.

   of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself

Questions about appropriative

What does appropriative mean?

appropriative means "of or relating to or given to the act of taking for yourself".

How many syllables are in appropriative?

appropriative has 5 syllables: ap-pro-pri-a-tive. The stress falls on "pri".

Is appropriative a common word?

appropriative 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.