substantiative

Questions about substantiative

What does substantiative mean?

substantiative means "serving to support or corroborate".

How many syllables are in substantiative?

substantiative has 5 syllables and divides as sub-stan-ti-a-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 substantiative?

Close synonyms include collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative. 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 substantiative a common word?

substantiative 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.