respective
Use Respective in a sentence
tɪv adjective
pertaining individually or severally to each of a number of persons, things, etc.; particular: I will now discuss the respective merits of the candidates.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | belonging or relating separately to each of several people or things; several: we took our respective ways home |
| 2. | an archaic word for respectful |
| re'spectiveness | |
| —n | |
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Respective
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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. |
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Word Origin & History
respective
1525, "regardful, attentive," from M.L. respectivus "having regard for," from L. respectus (see respect). Respectively "relatively to each singly" is from 1626.
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Example sentences
The companies said the collaboration comes at the urging of their respective customers.
Their time to represent their respective nations had come.
Their respective crimes: stealing a goat, a cow and nine bicycles.
The animals would have evolved over time and adapted themselves to their respective environmental conditions.
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