copulative

Other forms of copulative

plural

copulatives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about copulative

What does copulative mean?

copulative means "an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in copulative?

copulative has 4 syllables: co-pu-la-tive. The stress falls on "pu".

What is another word for copulative?

Close synonyms include copula, linking verb. 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.

Is copulative a common word?

copulative 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.