optative
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
Types & categories
- modality hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
indicating an option or wish
Related & opposite
- opt derivation
- alternative pertains to
Sense 3 adjective
relating to a mood of verbs in some languages
optative verb endings
Related & opposite
- grammar domain topic
- optative mood pertains to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain region | Related & opposite | Greece |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Sanskrit |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | modality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | opt |
| 2 | pertains to | Related & opposite | alternative |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | grammar |
| 3 | pertains to | Related & opposite | optative mood |