ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Orientative

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Orientative is an adjective meaning Serving to orient or orientate.

Meaning

Serving to orient or orientate.

More Meanings

  1. (grammar) Transmitting the sense of orientation towards an entity.

Example Sentences

The orientative case indicates that an entity or event is oriented towards or around the referent.
An activities coordinator named Suzy Ghosh came by with orientative tidings and registration forms for the afternoon’s outings in Newport, Rhode Island.
In our view, this approach to care ethics can be operationalized through an innovative account of two basic orientative principles and their systemic interrelation: autonomy, on the one hand, and the principle of vulnerability, on the other.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include orientational, orientated, oriented, reorientational, designative, orient.

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