concessive

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to concession

Questions about concessive

What does concessive mean?

concessive means "of or pertaining to concession".

How many syllables are in concessive?

concessive has 3 syllables and divides as con-ces-sive 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 concessive a common word?

concessive 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.