Optative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Expressing a wish or choice.
  • adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a mood of verbs in some languages, such as Greek, used to express a wish.
  • adj. Grammar Designating a statement using a verb in the subjunctive mood to indicate a wish or desire, as in Had I the means, I would do it.
  • n. Grammar The optative mood.
  • n. Grammar A verb or an expression in the optative mood.
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  • adj. expressing a wish or a choice.
  • adj. related or pertaining to the optative mood.
  • n. a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Ancient Greek), used to express a wish. English has no inflexional optative mood, but it has modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility.
  • n. a verb or expression in the optative mood.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Expressing desire or wish.
  • n. Something to be desired.
  • n. The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Expressing or expressive of desire or wish.
  • Expressing wish or desire by a distinct grammatical form; pertaining to or constituting the mode named from this use: as, the optative mode; optative constructions.
  • n. Something to be desired.
  • n. In grammar, the optative mode of a verb. Abbreviated opt.
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  • adj. relating to a mood of verbs in some languages
  • n. a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
  • adj. indicating an option or wish
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mood    modality    mode   
    Cross Reference
    optative mode    subjunctive   
    Form
    optatively   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clauses    subjunctive    37-38    ablative    past   
     
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