cursive

Running; flowing.

Adjective

  1. Running; flowing.
  2. Having successive letters joined together.
    • Then Mambro handed me his manuscript, a sheaf of loose pages really, his cursive handwriting scrawled over them, the exaggerated tails of the f’s and the j’s, the distinct loop of the q. - 2025, Santanu Bhattacharya,...
  3. Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
    • cursive aspect
    • […] of the action or state of affairs expressed by the verb to the time of utterance; rather they express how the speaker regards the event: many grammarians distinguish between a constative aspect, in which an...
    • […] other hand, by local divergences. The general drift is primarily reflected in the renewal of the prefix conjugation. This renewal is defined as a "renewal of the cursive aspect" according to RUNDGREN (1963, e.g. p....

    Coordinate Terms: stative constative perfect progressive imperfect durative

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin cursīvus, from Latin cursus.

Forms

more cursive most cursive

Derived

cursive singing cursivity cursivization noncursive precursive semicursive

Noun

  1. A cursive character, letter or font.
  2. A manuscript written in cursive characters.
  3. Joined-up handwriting.

    Antonyms: printing

    Hypernyms: handwriting

Forms

cursives

Antonyms

print

Related

course discursive incursive handwriting italic longhand shorthand

Derived

cursively cursiveness minuscule cursive Roman cursive