assistive

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   giving assistance

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Questions about assistive

What does assistive mean?

assistive means "giving assistance".

How many syllables are in assistive?

assistive has 3 syllables: as-si-stive. The stress falls on "as".

Is assistive a common word?

assistive 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.