illative

Plural: illatives

Adjective

• relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
  • "the illative faculty of the mind"

Adjective Satellite

• resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
  • "an illative conclusion"
• expressing or preceding an inference
  • "`therefore' is an illative word"

Adj

• Of, or relating to an illation.
• Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something.

Noun

• A word or phrase used to introduce an inference or conclusion.
• A word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore).
• An illation.
• The illative case, or a word in that case.

Examples

• an illative conjunction, such as "for" or "therefore"
• an illative consequence or proposition
• Using ILLATIVE as a bridge word, she connected two high-scoring plays.

Synonyms

inferential

Related Words

illation, infer, inference

Anagrams of illative