optative mood

1. 1.

   a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs

   Synonymsoptative

   Broadermood

   Greece · Sanskrit

Questions about optative mood

What does optative mood mean?

optative mood means "a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs".

What is another word for optative mood?

Close synonyms include optative. 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 optative mood a common word?

optative mood 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.