Associations to the word «Stative»

Wiktionary

STATIVE, adjective. (grammar) asserting that a subject has a particular property
STATIVE, adjective. (military) (obsolete) (rare) Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

Dictionary definition

STATIVE, adjective. ( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne