Usually means: Base form of a verb.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word infinitive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. infinitive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. infinitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. infinitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. infinitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. infinitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Infinitive, infinitive: Wordnik
  7. infinitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. infinitive: Wiktionary
  9. infinitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. infinitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. infinitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. infinitive: Dictionary.com
  13. infinitive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. infinitive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Infinitive (Ancient Greek), Infinitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Infinitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. infinitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. infinitive: Rhymezone
  19. infinitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. infinitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. infinitive: Free Dictionary
  22. infinitive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. infinitive: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infinitive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infinitive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. infinitive: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Infinitive: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See infinitively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (grammar) The infinitive mood or mode (a grammatical mood).
noun:  (grammar) A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form.
noun:  (grammar) A verbal noun formed from the infinitive of a verb.
adjective:  (grammar) Formed with the infinitive.
adjective:  Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined.

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