Gerundive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A verbal adjective in Latin that in the nominative case expresses the notion of fitness or obligation and in other cases functions as a future passive participle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A name given originally by Latin grammarians to the future participle passive, as amandus, ‘to be loved, requiring to be loved,’ but also used in the grammars of other languages, as Sanskrit, to indicate verbal adjectives having a like office. Also gerundial.
  • Word Usage
    "The gerundive is a verbal adjective and must be used instead of gerund + object, excepting in the genitive and in the ablative without a preposition."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gerundial   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    secus    active-transitive    reduced    transitive    aorist    passive    all-composite    future    same