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In some senses, missive is marked as formal, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
missive
/ˈmɪsɪv/
noun 3adj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
latest, sealed
VERB + MISSIVE
sent
MISSIVE + NOUN
allies, i'll, troops
PREP.
in, up
Definitions
noun
1
A written message; a letter, note or memo.
[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test[…]
2
Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
3
One who is sent; a messenger.
Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
adj
1
Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
a letter missive
Delivery of the Letters Missive
2
Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
In vain with Darts a diſtant War they try, / Short, and more ſhort the miſſive weapons fly.
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Synonyms
noun — a written message addressed to a person or organization
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
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The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test[…]
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The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded p
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a letter missive
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Delivery of the Letters Missive
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In vain with Darts a diſtant War they try, / Short, and more ſhort the miſſive weapons fly.
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