terminative

1. 1.

   coming to an end

   “a contract terminative with the end of the war”

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Questions about terminative

What does terminative mean?

terminative means "coming to an end".

How many syllables are in terminative?

terminative has 4 syllables and divides as ter-mi-na-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 terminative a common word?

terminative 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.