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promissive

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Is promissive a Scrabble word?

Yes, promissive is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 17 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends No

What is the meaning of promissive?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (grammar) Implying that the speaker intends to do something or guarantees something.Examples: "Changing the expression—shall is predictive, and will is promissive in the first person only; whereas, in the second and third, will is predictive, and shall promissive."; "As we will see, Korean also has promissive and propositive speech act sentence particles, which encode commitment and suggestion, respectively, and exclamative/mirative, indicating a surprise."; "Shall is simply predictive; will is predictive and promissive as well."

noun (English)

1. (grammar) A promissive mood, phrase, word, or inflection.Examples: "The promissive presumably belongs with informant subjects because we can assert a special kind of commitment concerning our own future actions; or, in a question, ask for this commitment from the addressee."; "The answer to the first question is negative: yídìng cannot express strong epistemic necessity in an imprative or a promissive."; "In addition to the four major sentence types, there are minor sentence types which are marked by distinct sentence-enders, in particular, promissive, apperceptive, exclamative, and premonitive."

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "promissive"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "promissive"?

Scrabble
17 points
P3
R1
O1
M3
I1
S1
S1
I1
V4
E1
Words With Friends
20 points
P4
R1
O1
M4
I1
S1
S1
I1
V4
E1

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