cursive

1. 1.

   having successive letter joined together

   “cursive script”

   Similarwritten

Other forms of cursive

plural

cursives·

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 cursive

What does cursive mean?

cursive means "rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cursive?

cursive has 2 syllables and divides as cur-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.

What is another word for cursive?

Close synonyms include longhand, running hand, cursive script. 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 cursive a common word?

cursive is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.