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- [ri-ses-iv]
- /rɪˈsɛs ɪv/
- /rɪˈses.ɪv/
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- [ri-ses-iv]
- /rɪˈsɛs ɪv/
Definitions of recessive word
- adjective recessive tending to go, move, or slant back; receding. 1
- adjective recessive Genetics. of or relating to a recessive. 1
- adjective recessive Phonetics. (of an accent) showing a tendency to recede from the end toward the beginning of a word. 1
- noun recessive that one of a pair of alternative alleles whose effect is masked by the activity of the second when both are present in the same cell or organism. 1
- noun recessive the trait or character determined by such an allele. Compare dominant (def 6). 1
- adjective recessive gene: not dominant 1
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Origin of recessive
First appearance:
before 1665 One of the 47% oldest English words
1665-75; < Latin recess(us) (see recess) + -ive
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Parts of speech for Recessive
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recessive popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
recessive usage trend in Literature
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adj recessive
- easy going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- easy-going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- laid back — relaxed or unhurried: laid-back music rhythms.
adjective recessive
- backward — A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- ebbing — the flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea (opposed to flood, flow).
- nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
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