cursive
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/ˈkɝsɪv/
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/ˈkɝsɪv/ · /ˈkɜːsɪv/
Definition of cursive
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- Running; flowing.
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adj
- Running; flowing.
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Having successive letters joined together.
“Then Mambro handed me his manuscript, a sheaf of loose pages really, his cursive handwriting scrawled over them, the exaggerated tails of the f’s and the j’s, the distinct loop of the q.”
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Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
“cursive aspect”
“[…] of the action or state of affairs expressed by the verb to the time of utterance; rather they express how the speaker regards the event: many grammarians distinguish between a constative aspect, in which an occurrence is simply registered as such, as something concluded, and a cursive aspect, in which the action is described in its course. (I need not add that this is an oversimplification, but there is no time for a more detailed account.)”
“[quoted text] “[…] future, nor an expression of non completed action, nor an expression of cursive aspect […] yiqtol usually expresses that an action will happen in the future, that it may, should or could happen: these are modal uses.”⁴⁰ Joosten even explains the indicative functions of the yiqtol in a modal […]”
noun
- (countable)A cursive character, letter or font.
- (countable)A manuscript written in cursive characters.
- (uncountable)Joined-up handwriting.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin cursīvus, from Latin cursus.
Words you can make from cursive
82 playable · top: CURVES (11 pts)
Best play curves 11 points6-letter words
3 words5-letter words
19 words4-letter words
29 words- VICE 9 pts
- ERUV 7 pts
- REVS 7 pts
- RIVE 7 pts
- VIER 7 pts
- VIES 7 pts
- VISE 7 pts
- CIRE 6 pts
- CRIS 6 pts
- CRUS 6 pts
- CUES 6 pts
- CURE 6 pts
- CURS 6 pts
- ECRU 6 pts
- ECUS 6 pts
- ICES 6 pts
- RECS 6 pts
- RICE 6 pts
- SICE 6 pts
- URIC 6 pts
- IRES 4 pts
- REIS 4 pts
- RISE 4 pts
- RUES 4 pts
- RUSE 4 pts
- SIRE 4 pts
- SUER 4 pts
- SURE 4 pts
- USER 4 pts
3-letter words
24 words2-letter words
6 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
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