Agentive Definition
ə-gĕntĭv
adjective
Of or relating to a linguistic form or construction that indicates an agent or agency, as the suffix -er in singer.
American Heritage
Of or producing a grammatical form that denotes the doer of a given action or the means of bringing about a given result.
Webster's New World
(linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.
Wiktionary
noun
An agentive form or construction.
American Heritage
An agentive form or affix, as the suffix -er in roller.
Webster's New World
(linguistics) A word having this construction.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Agentive
Noun
Singular:
agentive
Plural:
agentives
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