INFINITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infinitive mean? 

• INFINITIVE (noun)
  The noun INFINITIVE has 1 sense:

1. the uninflected form of the verb

  Familiarity information: INFINITIVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFINITIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The uninflected form of the verb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("infinitive" is a kind of...):

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infinitive"):

split infinitive (an infinitive with an adverb between 'to' and the verb (e.g., 'to boldly go'))

Derivation:

infinitival (relating to or formed with the infinitive)