Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Disposed or inclined to write; given to writing.
Wiktionary
- adj. archaic Inclined to much writing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to
talkative .
Etymologies
- From write, possibly modelled on talkative. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘writative’.
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Seedy's Words
dustyfoot, o-dark-thirty, architrave crown, limbeck, galoot, feckless, smock, snood, sleck, noceur, rake, libertine and 33 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Indeed! I intend to use that Italian oath, too: "By the body of Bacchus!" :-) Feb 15, 2008
chained_bear "'...you know I am a little talkative... but alas I am not at all writative, at least not in English. English spelling! Corpo di Baccho, English spelling!'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 65 Feb 15, 2008