promotive

1. 1.

   tending to further or encourage

   Similarencouraging

Questions about promotive

What does promotive mean?

promotive means "tending to further or encourage".

How many syllables are in promotive?

promotive has 3 syllables and divides as pro-mo-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.

Is promotive a common word?

promotive 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.