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ADMISSIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does admissive mean?
• ADMISSIVE (adjective)
The adjective ADMISSIVE has 1 sense:
1. characterized by or allowing admission
Familiarity information: ADMISSIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by or allowing admission
Context example:
an Elizabethan tragedy admissive of comic scenes
Similar:
open; receptive (ready or willing to receive favorably)
Derivation:
admit (afford possibility)
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