| -ive | |
| —suffix | |
| 1. | (forming adjectives) indicating a tendency, inclination, character, or quality: divisive; prohibitive; festive; massive |
| 2. | (forming nouns of adjectival origin): detective; expletive |
| [from Latin -īvus] | |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |