Reservative

Quick meaning: Reservative is an adjective meaning Tending to reserve or keep; Involving the holding of something in reserve.

Meaning

Tending to reserve or keep; Involving the holding of something in reserve.

More Meanings

1. Expressing reservation; indicating a qualification or doubt.
2. (linguistics) Denoting an action that puts the object of the sentence into a state in which it remains.
3. An exception to a rule or decree; a proviso.
4. (law) Pertaining to a form of transfer of real estate, in Spanish and South American law, where full ownership is granted to another person but where the new owner must pay the original owner an annual fee for rights to the land.

Example Sentences

With this enumeration of the advantages of a refined taste, we would make one reservative remark.

The more enjoyment here we have A reservative store, Augmenting thus, our path to pave, 'Twill shine for ever more.

That this is a reservative grant, viz., one converying full dominion, is manifest from the character of the annuity which by law is declared to attach to composition titles, viz., its redeemable quality.

Prior to the closing of the meeting, Chinese delegation leader Liu Huaqiu, the deputy Chinese foreign minister, made a reservative speech , saying " we have reservations to some contents of the document."

Word Forms

• reservatives

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preservative, conservative, retentive, conservant, tenible, preservable.

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