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- pronunciation:
- kag
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tihv
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
of, pertaining to, or involving the use of the mind for acquiring knowledge and processing thought.
Thinking and memorizing are cognitive tasks. |
(adj.)cognitive
+ noun
ability,
achievement,
anxiety,
appraisal,
approach,
aspect,
assessment,
behavior,
bias,
capability,
capacity,
characteristic,
competence,
complexity,
component,
construct,
coping,
criticism,
decline,
deficit,
demand,
development,
difficulty,
dimension,
disability,
disorder,
dissonance,
domain,
dysfunction,
efficiency,
engagement,
evaluation,
explanation,
factor,
framework,
function,
functioning,
imagery,
impairment,
intensity,
intervention,
knowledge,
language,
learner,
learning,
limitation,
linguistics,
literature,
load,
map,
mapping,
mechanism,
method,
modality,
mode,
model,
motor,
objective,
orientation,
outcome,
perception,
performance,
personality,
perspective,
potential,
process,
processing,
psychologist,
psychology,
reaction,
representation,
research,
response,
restructuring,
rhetoric,
schema,
science,
scientist,
score,
skill,
strategy,
structure,
style,
task,
technique,
test,
theorist,
theory,
therapy,
thinking,
understanding,
variable
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| derivation: |
cognitively (adv.) |
The word cognitive
contains the following parts:
cogn, cognit, gnor
Latin
root
that means know, knowledge
  Example words:
cognition, cognitive, cognizable, cognizance, cognoscente, ignorance, ignore, incognito, incognizant, precognition, recognition, recognizance, recognize
- synonyms:
- gnos, gnosis, gnom, -gnomy
-ive, -ative
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means tending to, connected with, or performing
More about this word part:
The suffix -ive
, -ative
turns Latinate verb bases into adjectives. Many adjectives ending in -ive
, -ative
have corresponding noun forms ending in -ity (objective
, objectivity) or -ion (effusive
, effusion).
Example words:
abrasive, abusive, accumulative, activate, active, actively, activist, administrative, affirmative, aggressive, alternative, attractive, captive, cognitive, combative, conclusive, curative, cursive, dative, derisive, divisive, effusive, emotive, exclusive, expensive, figurative, fixative, formative, fricative, fugitive, imperative, incisive, inclusive, infinitive, interactive, laxative, native, normative, objective, permissive, productive, protective, quantitative, relative, restive, subjective
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