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INFINITIVE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does infinitive mean?

• INFINITIVE (noun)
The noun INFINITIVE has 1 sense:

1. the uninflected form of the verb

Familiarity information: INFINITIVE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• INFINITIVE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The uninflected form of the verb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("infinitive" is a kind of...):

verb (a word that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infinitive"):

split infinitive (an infinitive with an adverb between 'to' and the verb (e.g., 'to boldly go'))

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