Cursive Definition

kûrsĭv
adjective
Flowing; not disconnected; specif., designating writing in which the strokes of the letters are joined in each word.
Webster's New World
Running; flowing.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun
A cursive character.
Webster's New World
A manuscript in cursive writing.
Webster's New World
A typeface that looks like handwriting, but with unconnected letters.
Webster's New World
A type style that imitates handwriting.
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Other Word Forms of Cursive

Noun

Singular:
cursive
Plural:
cursives

Origin of Cursive

  • French (écriture) cursive cursive (handwriting) from Medieval Latin (scrīpta) cursīva from Latin cursus past participle of currere to run kers- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin cursivus, from Latin cursum.

    From Wiktionary

Cursive Sentence Examples

  • It is in the Rabbinic and Cursive characters that the differences are most noticeable.

  • By the time of the XXVth Dynasty the cursive of the conservative Thebais had become very obscure.

  • Thus the Roman letters E and F are liable to be confused in capital script, but not in cursive (e, f), C, G, in capitals, c, e in the cursive writing called Caroline minuscule, c, t, in the angular cursive of the 13th century and later.

  • I think we should not be forced to learn cursive.

  • About the time of Ergamenes, or (according to some authorities) before, a vernacular came to be employed in inscriptions, written in a special alphabet of 23 signs in parallel hieroglyphic and cursive forms. The cursive is to be read from right to left, the hieroglyphic, contrary to the Egyptian method, in the direction in which the figures face.

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Words Starting With

CCUCUR

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

Unscrambles

cursive

Words Starting With C and Ending With E

Starts With C & Ends With EStarts With CU & Ends With EStarts With C & Ends With VE

Word Length

7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With C7 Letter Words Ending With E