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Word: optative (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • expressing a wish or a choice.
  • related or pertaining to the optative mood.

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Noun:

  • a verb or expression in the optative mood.
  • grammar a verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Latin), used to express a wish. English doesn't have an inflexional optative mood, but it does have modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility.

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