exhortative

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Appearing to exhort; in an urging manner.
2. Inflected hortative verb form that a speaker uses to avidly encourage a listener.

Noun

The exhortative mood.

Synonymes

hortatory

exhortatory

hortative

admonitory

moralizing

monitorial

admonitive

Traductions

exhortativo

esortativo

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɛɡˈzɔːtətɪv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: exhortatyf

In summary

From late Middle English exhortatyf, from Latin exhortātīvus, from exhortātus + -ivus. By surface analysis, exhort + -ative.