| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| stative |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sta·tive |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  st  t v |
| ADJECTIVE: | Belonging to or designating a class of verbs that express a state or condition. | | NOUN: | A verb of the stative class. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin stat vus, stationary, from stre, stat-, to stand. See st- in Appendix I.
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