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noun
- 1. a letter, especially a long or official one: "yet another missive from the Foreign Office"
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an official, formal, or long letter: She sent a ten-page missive to the committee, detailing her objections. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Letters, notes and cards. aerogramme. air letter. billet-doux. chain letter. Christmas card. correspondence. get-well card. greetings card. handbill. hate mail. invitation. invite. junk mail.
: a written communication : letter. wrote a lengthy missive to her father. Synonyms. dispatch. epistle. letter. memorandum. note. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of missive in a Sentence.
MISSIVE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of missive in English. missive. noun [ C ] us / ˈmɪs.ɪv / uk / ˈmɪs.ɪv / Add to word list. an official, formal, or long letter: She sent a ten-page missive to the committee, detailing her objections. Letters, notes and cards. aerogram. air letter. billet-doux. chain letter.
A missive usually refers to the old-school style of hand-written communication on paper (remember that?), but these days you also might hear an email called a missive. No matter how you deliver it, a missive is a message.
A missive is a letter or other message that someone sends. [humorous, or literary] ...the customary missive from your dear mother. Synonyms: letter, report, note, message More Synonyms of missive. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
Missive definition: a written message; letter.. See examples of MISSIVE used in a sentence.
mis·sive. (mĭs′ĭv) n. A written message; a letter. See Synonyms at letter. [From Middle English (letter) missive, (letter) sent (by superior authority), from Medieval Latin (litterae) missīvae, feminine pl. of missīvus, sent, from Latin missus, past participle of mittere, to send.]
