Usually means: Expresses wish, desire, or hope.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word optative:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. optative: Merriam-Webster
  2. optative, the optative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. optative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. optative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. optative: Vocabulary.com
  6. optative: Wordnik
  7. optative: Wiktionary
  8. optative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. optative: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Optative, optative: Dictionary.com
  11. optative: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Optative (Ancient Greek), Optative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Optative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. optative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. optative: Rhymezone
  16. Optative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. optative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. optative: FreeDictionary.org
  19. optative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. optative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. optative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. optative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. optative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. optative: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (optative)

adjective:  Expressing a wish or a choice.
adjective:  (grammar) Related or pertaining to the optative mood.
noun:  (grammar) A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, and Ancient Greek, but not English), used to express a wish.
noun:  (grammar) A verb or expression in the optative mood.

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