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Cursive vs Pursive - What's the difference?

cursive | pursive |

As adjectives the difference between cursive and pursive

is that cursive is running; flowing while pursive is (obsolete) pursy.

As a noun cursive

is a cursive character, letter or font.

cursive

English

(wikipedia cursive)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Running; flowing.
  • Having successive letters joined together.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cursive character, letter or font.
  • A manuscript written in cursive characters.

    • Antonyms

    * print

    Derived terms

    * cursively * cursiveness

    See also

    * handwriting * italic * longhand * shorthand ----

    pursive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pursy
    • a pursive horse
    (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)