ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. Creating anew.
  2. (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

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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