Stative

Quick meaning: Stative is an adjective meaning (grammar) Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property or status.

Meaning

(grammar) Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property or status.

More Meanings

1. (military, obsolete, rare) Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
2. (grammar) A construct asserting that a subject has a particular property.

Example Sentences

1805 On the Situation, Manners and Inhabitants of Germany; and the Life Of Agricola; by Cornelius Tacitus: Translated into English by John Aikin. The camp also was weak, being no more than a common one, such as the Romans flung up on their march. It has no appearance of ever having been stative.

1831 James Knox: The topography of the basin of the Tay It is evident, that a Roman station has existed at Bertha; and one of the objects of its construction here, seems to have been the command of the ford across the Tay. Derder's Ford, being the first above the tide-way, the importance of the position, in a military point of view, is obvious. From the ramparts that remain, it appears to have been of considerably larger dimensions than the celebrated stative camp at Ardoch.

Word Forms

• statives

Synonyms for stative

Depending on context, synonyms include descriptive.

Antonyms for stative

Common opposites include dynamic, active.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stateable, statable, assertible, assertable, nominative, asseverative.

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