gravitative

1. 1.

   of or relating to or caused by gravitation

   Synonymsgravitational

Questions about gravitative

What does gravitative mean?

gravitative means "of or relating to or caused by gravitation".

How many syllables are in gravitative?

gravitative has 4 syllables and divides as gra-vi-ta-tive 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 gravitative?

Close synonyms include gravitational. 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 gravitative a common word?

gravitative 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.