EGAVE

suppletive

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Making up for deficiencies; supplementary; suppletory.
  2. adjective Supplying an etymologically unrelated word with forms, or which is used as one of its forms, by suppletion (for example, in English, better and best are suppletive forms of good).
  3. adjective Relating to laws which can apply in a contract if the parties choose to agree to this.
  4. noun A form used by way of suppletion.

Similar words

alternate proxy residual supplementable suppliant suppliable sufficive succourable suffixable complementable

Often followed by

forms form function stems verbs imperative verb stem allomorphs

Word family

suppletion suppletions

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