perfective

1. 1.

   a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)

   Synonymsperfective tenseperfectperfect tense

   Broadertense

   Narrowerpresent perfectpast perfectfuture perfect
2. 2.

   the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action

   Synonymsperfective aspect

   Broaderaspect

Other forms of perfective

plural

perfectives·

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 perfective

What does perfective mean?

perfective means "a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perfective?

perfective has 3 syllables: per-fec-tive. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for perfective?

Close synonyms include perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense, perfective aspect. 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 perfective a common word?

perfective 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.