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Definition of Suppletive
1. a. Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; as, a suppletory oath.
Definition of Suppletive
1. Adjective. (grammar) Inflected by substituting an unrelated form (for example, in English, the adjectival forms ''good'', ''better,'' ''best''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suppletive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppletive
Literary usage of Suppletive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1832)
"There be also suppletive Syllables of no signi- [p. vs.] fication, but for ornament
... Our suppletive is rather [ Weh], and [ Why] is a significant word. ..."
2. The Formal Bases of Law by Giorgio Del Vecchio (1914)
"There is, moreover, a fourth class, composed of dispositive (called also suppletive
or indicative) norms intended to supply volition, where the agent has ..."
3. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"In the first and second singular, steins in long vowels and the suppletive
stem |-si| 'say (thus)' add |-m|, ... suppletive stem |-sl| 'say (thus)': ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"... suppletive good: well, and in that between cardinal numeral and ordinal numeral,
beside the regular four: fourth, six: sixth, etc., and the irregular ..."
5. A Grammar of the New Testament Dialect by Moses Stuart (1841)
"(2) The ground particle yap is either argumentative and explicative^ or suppletive
and conclusive. This results from the yi and ада which unite in forming ..."
6. The Modern Legal Philosophy Series by Association of American Law Schools (1914)
"There is, moreover, a fourth class, composed of dispositive (called also suppletive
or indicative) norms intended to supply volition ..."
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