"absotively" meaning in English

See absotively in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Etymology: Blend of absolutely + positively Etymology templates: {{blend|en|absolutely|positively}} Blend of absolutely + positively Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} absotively (not comparable)
  1. (informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively. Tags: informal, not-comparable Synonyms: absatively, absitively Derived forms: absotively posilutely, absotively posolutely Related terms: absitively posolutely
    Sense id: en-absotively-en-adv-5X3tipVC Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for absotively meaning in English (1.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "absolutely",
        "3": "positively"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of absolutely + positively",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of absolutely + positively",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "absotively (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "absotively posilutely"
        },
        {
          "word": "absotively posolutely"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159",
          "text": "That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL",
          "text": "“I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →LCCN, →OL",
          "text": "“Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Absolutely and positively."
      ],
      "id": "en-absotively-en-adv-5X3tipVC",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "childish",
          "childish"
        ],
        [
          "Absolutely",
          "absolutely"
        ],
        [
          "positively",
          "positively"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "humorous or childish",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "absitively posolutely"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "absatively"
        },
        {
          "word": "absitively"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "absotively"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "absotively posilutely"
    },
    {
      "word": "absotively posolutely"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "absolutely",
        "3": "positively"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of absolutely + positively",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of absolutely + positively",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "absotively (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "absitively posolutely"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English blends",
        "English childish terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adverbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159",
          "text": "That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL",
          "text": "“I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →LCCN, →OL",
          "text": "“Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Absolutely and positively."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "childish",
          "childish"
        ],
        [
          "Absolutely",
          "absolutely"
        ],
        [
          "positively",
          "positively"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "humorous or childish",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "absatively"
    },
    {
      "word": "absitively"
    }
  ],
  "word": "absotively"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.