Factitive

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:17 ptsWWF:19 pts9 letters

Definition of Factitive

adjective

Of or constituting a transitive verb that renders to a thing a certain character or status and that in English can take an objective complement modifying its direct object, such as make in That makes me angry, or elect in We elected him Treasurer.
Causing; causative.
Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine.

noun

Causative; effective; expressive of making or causing: in grammar said of a verb which takes, besides its object, a further adjunct expressing something predicated of that object: thus, they made him a ruler; to call a man a coward; to paint the house red.
In grammar, a factitive verb.

Anagrams of Factitive

Words You Can Make

50 words can be made from the letters in "factitive":

7-LETTER WORDS

cavetti fictive vitiate

6-LETTER WORDS

active cattie viatic vittae

5-LETTER WORDS

attic cavie civet civie evict facet tacet tacit tecta vatic vitae vitta

4-LETTER WORDS

cafe cate cave cite etic face fact fate fave feat feta fiat fice five tace+6 more

3-LETTER WORDS

ace act aft ait ate att ave cat eat eft

Related Word Patterns

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Rhyming Words

ablative abortive above abrasive absolutive absolve absorptive abstractive abusive accelerative acceptive accommodative accretive acculturative accumulative+5 more

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