designative

1. 1.

   serving to designate

   Similardenotative

Questions about designative

What does designative mean?

designative means "serving to designate".

How many syllables are in designative?

designative has 4 syllables: de-sig-na-tive. The stress falls on "sig".

Is designative a common word?

designative 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.