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recreative

adjective

recreative is an adjective meaning “Being, or pertaining to, recreation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-R-E-A-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does recreative mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Being, or pertaining to, recreation.

  2. 2

    Creating anew.

    recreative power

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleterareA recreative thing or activity.

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

How common is recreative?

Recreative appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).

Where does recreative come from?

From recreate + -ive.

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