EGAVE

illative

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of, or relating to an illation.
    an illative consequence or proposition
  2. adjective Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something.
  3. noun A word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore).
  4. noun An illation.
  5. noun The illative case, or a word in that case.

Similar words

inferential deductive illusional illusionary illuministic illocutive illuvial libationary iliacal incantational

Often followed by

sense case and forms relation particle conjunction conjunctions is

Word family

illatively illatives

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