| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fac·ti·tive |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f k t -tv |
| ADJECTIVE: | Of or constituting a transitive verb that renders to a thing a certain character or status and that in English can take an objective complement modifying its direct object, such as make in That makes me angry, or elect in We elected him Treasurer. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin factit vus, from Latin factit re, to do, practice, frequentative of facere, to do. See dh - in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | facti·tive·ly —ADVERB
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