Missive vs Bulletin - What's the difference?
missive | bulletin | Related terms |
(formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
* 2008 , Claire Armistead, The Guardian ,
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ,
(obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
missile
* Dryden
Missive is a related term of bulletin.
As nouns the difference between missive and bulletin
is that missive is (formal) a written message; a letter, note or memo while bulletin is .As an adjective missive
is specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.missive
English
Noun
(en noun)25 Oct 2008:
- The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.
Chapter 71:
- "Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.
- Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
Adjective
(-)- a letter missive
- (Ayliffe)
- The missive weapons fly.
