English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “precipitative”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for precipitative is pre-cip-i-ta-tive, with 4 possible break points in this result.

US English hyphenation
pre-cip-i-ta-tive
5 segments4 break points
British English pattern result pre-cip-it-at-ive The GB pattern set returns a different line-break pattern. Pattern differences are not automatically treated as a linguistic US/UK difference.
Wordprecipitative
Hyphenationpre-cip-i-ta-tive
Break points4
Part of speechadjective
Meaning & usage

What does “precipitative” mean?

precipitative: Causing precipitation; involving or marked by precipitation.

Headwordprecipitative
Part of speechadjective
1
adjective

Causing precipitation; involving or marked by precipitation.

Word breaks

How “precipitative” is split

pre·cip·i·ta·tive

For US English, the hyphenation result is pre-cip-i-ta-tive. This gives 4 possible line-break points in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns pre-cip-it-at-ive.

Quick answers

Questions about “precipitative”

How do you hyphenate “precipitative”?

In the US-English result used here, precipitative is hyphenated as pre-cip-i-ta-tive.

Where can “precipitative” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 4 possible break points.

What does “precipitative” mean?

Causing precipitation; involving or marked by precipitation.

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