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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

con•ten•tive n. [Ling.]

Oceanography, Linguisticsa content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Cf. functor (def. 2).

content¹ + -ive

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empty word - full word - functor

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