Meaning

3 senses
  1. Running; flowing.

  2. Having successive letters joined together.

    kursiv

    рукопи́сныйrukopísnyj, курси́вныйkursívnyj

    having successive letters joined together

  3. Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).

    cursive aspect

Examples

13 sentences
  1. I prefer to write in cursive.

    ruЯ предпочитаю писать курсивом. — Hellerick

  2. Can you write cursive?

  3. Flavio hasn’t learnt to write in cursive.

  4. I gotta learn how to write in cursive.

  5. His cursive writing was definitely not up to scratch.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
having successive letters joined together:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
having successive letters joined together:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin cursīvus, from Latin cursus.

Borrowed from Middle French cursif, from Medieval Latin cursīvus, from Latin cursus.

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Forms

more cursive, most cursive
Comparativemore cursive Lesson
Superlativemost cursive Lesson

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cursive — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto