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adjustive

adjective

adjustive is spelled A-D-J-U-S-T-I-V-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, adjustive means “Tending or serving to adjust” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in adjustive?

Letters9: A-D-J-U-S-T-I-V-E
In writingabout once in every 78 million words; the 279,513th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is adjustive?

Adjustive appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of adjustive

  • more adjustive comparative
  • most adjustive superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does adjustive mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Tending or serving to adjust.

    adjustive behavior

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does adjustive come from?

From adjust + -ive.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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