Exceptive

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, being, or containing an exception.
  • adj. Archaic Captious; faultfinding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. exceptional, having an exception
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. That excepts; including an exception.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Making or constituting an exception.
  • Disposed to take exception; inclined to object.
  • Word Usage
    "The fourth chapter, which deals with exceptive words, is compiled in a similar manner."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    caviling