preteritive
Used only or chiefly in the preterite or past tensesUsed only or chiefly in the preterite or past tenses.
Meaning
1 senses(archaic, not comparable)Used only or chiefly in the preterite or past tenses.
a preteritive verb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.