See recommendative in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "recommend",
"3": "ative"
},
"expansion": "recommend + -ative",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From recommend + -ative.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "recommendative",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "56 44",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "72 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ative",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "76 24",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
69,
83
]
],
"ref": "1860, Mrs. T. J. Crowen, American Lady's System of Cookery, page 398:",
"text": "The coffee-urn or pot should have on its brightest face, and all the recommendative warmth of its nature — ready for a free outpouring; the cream or boiled milk should not lack heat, and, not \"to waste its sweetness\" on the unappreciating air, should be contained in a covered pitcher of tin or other metal; the sugar-basin, whether of the same as the other dishes, or of metal, should be bright and covered, with a large-sized tea or sugar-spoon beside it; the cups and saucers may be placed in heaps of three, within the circle of the sugar, slop, and cream vessels.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
56,
70
]
],
"ref": "1975, David James Louzecky, Reasons, Actions, and Beliefs, page 74:",
"text": "However, an epistemic inference could also be used in a recommendative or directive manner.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
104,
118
]
],
"ref": "2011, Gerald Gunther, Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge, page 94:",
"text": "I cannot find that the average denizen of the Bowery seems to be greatly impressed by any oratorical or recommendative efforts which may proceed from me.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That recommends; recomendatory."
],
"id": "en-recommendative-en-adj-xGZ7r5cE",
"links": [
[
"recommend",
"recommend"
],
[
"recomendatory",
"recomendatory"
]
]
}
],
"word": "recommendative"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "recommend",
"3": "ative"
},
"expansion": "recommend + -ative",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From recommend + -ative.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "recommendatives",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "recommendative (plural recommendatives)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
196,
210
]
],
"ref": "1727, The Art of Speaking in Publick, page 15:",
"text": "If our English youth were trained up a great deal more, than they are at present, in the noble art of oratory, and better instructed in the rules and laws of speaking and action, the ornament and recommendative of all discourse; why might they not become as good speakers, as ever Greece and Rome yet produced ?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
118,
132
]
],
"ref": "1866, Report of the Ganges Canal Committee, page 20:",
"text": "The right bank of the river is remarkably firm and good, and the left bank is not particularly bad; but the strongest recommendative in favor of the site is the abundance of stone — both of rubble and of blocks, almost completely dressed, which can be obtained from the old fort, opposite to and within a distance of three miles of the river bank at Alee.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
106,
120
]
],
"ref": "1896, Report of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, page 14:",
"text": "I can only express my own gratification that our Committee was ready at this time to make that report and recommendative, and my earnest hope that the resolutions will be adopted.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That which recommends; a recommendation."
],
"id": "en-recommendative-en-noun-qaCxG-aT",
"links": [
[
"recommend",
"recommend"
],
[
"recommendation",
"recommendation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) That which recommends; a recommendation."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "recommendative"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ative",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "recommend",
"3": "ative"
},
"expansion": "recommend + -ative",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From recommend + -ative.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "recommendative",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
69,
83
]
],
"ref": "1860, Mrs. T. J. Crowen, American Lady's System of Cookery, page 398:",
"text": "The coffee-urn or pot should have on its brightest face, and all the recommendative warmth of its nature — ready for a free outpouring; the cream or boiled milk should not lack heat, and, not \"to waste its sweetness\" on the unappreciating air, should be contained in a covered pitcher of tin or other metal; the sugar-basin, whether of the same as the other dishes, or of metal, should be bright and covered, with a large-sized tea or sugar-spoon beside it; the cups and saucers may be placed in heaps of three, within the circle of the sugar, slop, and cream vessels.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
56,
70
]
],
"ref": "1975, David James Louzecky, Reasons, Actions, and Beliefs, page 74:",
"text": "However, an epistemic inference could also be used in a recommendative or directive manner.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
104,
118
]
],
"ref": "2011, Gerald Gunther, Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge, page 94:",
"text": "I cannot find that the average denizen of the Bowery seems to be greatly impressed by any oratorical or recommendative efforts which may proceed from me.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That recommends; recomendatory."
],
"links": [
[
"recommend",
"recommend"
],
[
"recomendatory",
"recomendatory"
]
]
}
],
"word": "recommendative"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -ative",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "recommend",
"3": "ative"
},
"expansion": "recommend + -ative",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From recommend + -ative.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "recommendatives",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "recommendative (plural recommendatives)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
196,
210
]
],
"ref": "1727, The Art of Speaking in Publick, page 15:",
"text": "If our English youth were trained up a great deal more, than they are at present, in the noble art of oratory, and better instructed in the rules and laws of speaking and action, the ornament and recommendative of all discourse; why might they not become as good speakers, as ever Greece and Rome yet produced ?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
118,
132
]
],
"ref": "1866, Report of the Ganges Canal Committee, page 20:",
"text": "The right bank of the river is remarkably firm and good, and the left bank is not particularly bad; but the strongest recommendative in favor of the site is the abundance of stone — both of rubble and of blocks, almost completely dressed, which can be obtained from the old fort, opposite to and within a distance of three miles of the river bank at Alee.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
106,
120
]
],
"ref": "1896, Report of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, page 14:",
"text": "I can only express my own gratification that our Committee was ready at this time to make that report and recommendative, and my earnest hope that the resolutions will be adopted.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"That which recommends; a recommendation."
],
"links": [
[
"recommend",
"recommend"
],
[
"recommendation",
"recommendation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) That which recommends; a recommendation."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "recommendative"
}
Download raw JSONL data for recommendative meaning in English (4.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (87ad358 and ea19a0a). 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.