Recreative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Recreative is an adjective meaning Being, or pertaining to, recreation.
Meaning
Being, or pertaining to, recreation.
More Meanings
- Creating anew.
- (obsolete, rare) A recreative thing or activity.
Example Sentences
recreative power
Tribute acts, by contrast, are purely recreative.
For, theſe are onely Cynthias recreatiues / Made vnto Phœbus, and are feminine; […]
Among the most delightful of mental recreatives may be classed the exhilarating pleasures of intellectual intercourse; they constitute the very life-fluid of our social being.
Word Forms
- recreatives
Synonyms for recreative
Depending on context, synonyms include rec, recreational.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include recreational, creational, recreatory, recyclic, reconstitutive, reoccupational.
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