Definition of Recreative

1. a. Creating anew; as, re-creative power.

2. a. Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.

Definition of Recreative

1. Adjective. Being, or pertaining to, recreation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recreative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recreative

recreation facility
recreation room
recreational
recreational drug
recreational drugs
recreational facility
recreational mathematics
recreational pharmaceutical
recreational vehicle
recreational vehicles
recreationally
recreationist
recreationists
recreations
recreative (current term)
recreator
recreators
recremental
recrementitial
recrementitious
recrements
recriminate
recriminated
recriminates
recriminating
recrimination
recriminations
recriminative

Literary usage of Recreative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pedagogy of Physical Training, with Special Reference to Formal Exercises by Charles Ward Crampton (1922)
"CHAPTER XI recreative WORK Under the title of recreative ... No physical training period is complete without its recreative features, which appropriately ..."

2. Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation by Charles Gore (1890)
"The mysterious facts which He at the root of the recreative process must be briefly noticed. Christian holiness is the reproduction in the individual of the ..."

3. Conduct and Its Disorders: Biologically Considered by Charles Arthur Mercier (1911)
"recreative CONDUCT recreative conduct consists of acts that are undertaken for ... Doubtless, in almost every recreative activity there is an end in view. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"recreative Religionists. F rey Gospel Church. Reformed Church of England. Five Grace Gospel Christians. Reformed Presbyterians or Covenanters. ..."

5. Continuation Schools in England & Elsewhere: Their Place in the Educational by Michael Sadler (1907)
"The work of the recreative Evening Schools' Association dates back to the time of the deliberations of the Royal Commission appointed in 1886 to inquire ..."

6. Solving the Country Church Problem by Garland Armor Bricker (1913)
"recreative Activities.—It is a ministry to the body as well as to the soul that confronts the rural Sunday school. Indeed, it is difficult to separate body ..."

7. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1867)
"... read a paper on " recreative amusements as an agency of social reform. ... of the growth of recreative amusements in .Scotland, and particularly in ..."

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