Aperitive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Aperitive is an adjective meaning (medicine) Tending to open the bowels; aperient.
Meaning
(medicine) Tending to open the bowels; aperient.
More Meanings
- Serving as an apéritif: a pre-meal alcoholic drink.
- (medicine) Synonym of aperient.
Example Sentences
She was looking, while so occupied, at the German group engaged in the garden, near by, with aperitive beer and disputation.
Word Forms
- aperitives
Synonyms for aperitive
Depending on context, synonyms include aperient.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include apertive, solutive, peptic, anuretic, emunctory, anoperineal.
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