recessive

Other forms of recessive

plural

recessives·

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 recessive

What does recessive mean?

recessive means "of or pertaining to a recession". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recessive?

recessive has 3 syllables: re-ces-sive. The stress falls on "ces". In IPA it is /ɹəˈsɛsɪv/.

What is another word for recessive?

Close synonyms include recessionary, recessive allele. 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.

What is the opposite of recessive?

The recorded antonyms are dominant.

Is recessive a common word?

recessive is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recessive?

3 words rhyme with recessive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.