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Deletive vs Delative - What's the difference?

deletive | delative |

As an adjective deletive

is tending to delete or obliterate.

As a noun delative is

a case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express the movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table").

deletive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to delete or obliterate.
    • lexical deletive rules
    (Evelyn)
    (Webster 1913)

    delative

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • a case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express the movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table").