causative

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɔːzətɪv/    美 /ˈkɔzətɪv/|[ˈkɔ.zə.ɾɪv]|/ˈkoːzətɪv/|[ˈkoː.zə.ɾɪv]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
形容词 adj.
  1. Acting as a cause. not-comparable
    — Causative in nature of a number of effects.
  2. Involving, or affected by, causality. not-comparable
    — Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.
  3. Expressing a cause or causation. not-comparable
    — The ablative is a causative case.

词形变化

causatives plural

词汇关系

反义词
noncausative
衍生词
anticausative anticausativisation causatively causativeness causative verb causativity causativization causativize intercausative multicausative
相关词
curative

词源

词源 1
From French causatif, from Latin causātīvus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause (verb) and -ive.
词源 2
From French causatif, from Latin causātīvus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause (verb) and -ive.
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