Usually means: Verb that implies truthfulness of complement.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. -factive: Merriam-Webster
  2. factive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. factive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. factive: Wordnik
  5. factive: Wiktionary
  6. factive: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Factive, factive: Dictionary.com
  8. Factive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. factive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Factive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. factive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. factive: FreeDictionary.org
  13. factive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. factive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Factive, -factive: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (factive)

adjective:  (grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true.
adjective:  (epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
noun:  (grammar) A factive verb.
adjective:  (obsolete) Making.

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