cursive
Running; flowing.
Adjective
- Running; flowing.
- 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,...
- 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
Derived
cursive singing cursivity cursivization noncursive precursive semicursive
Noun
- A cursive character, letter or font.
- A manuscript written in cursive characters.
- Joined-up handwriting.
Antonyms: printing
Hypernyms: handwriting
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course discursive incursive handwriting italic longhand shorthand