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abductive

adj
/æbˈdʌk.tɪv/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin ab- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin abdūcō Latin abductusder. English abduct Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English abductive From abduct + -ive.

  1. derived from -yf English -ive English abductive From abduct + -ive
  2. derived from -īvus Old French -ifbor
  3. derived from abduct Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder
  4. derived from ab- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin abdūcō Latin abductusder
  5. derived from *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder✻

Definitions

  1. Related or pertaining to abductor muscles and their movement.

  2. Being or relating to a logical process of abduction or inference.

  3. Abducting, pertaining to an abduction (a kidnapping).

    • The logs showed that between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the abductive day, 10,718 SIMs connected with the seven […] Some people in the kidnap zone would of course have called each other innocently, but […]

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Derived

abductively, nonabductive

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for abductive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA