Usually means: Written message sent to someone.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word missive:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. missive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. missive: Merriam-Webster
  3. missive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. missive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. missive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. missive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Missive, missive: Wordnik
  8. missive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. missive: Wiktionary
  10. missive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. missive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. missive: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Missive, missive: Dictionary.com
  14. missive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Missive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Missive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. missive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. missive: Rhymezone
  19. missive, missive (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. missive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. missive: FreeDictionary.org
  22. missive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. missive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. missive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. missive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
noun:  (in the plural, Scots law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
noun:  (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
adjective:  Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
adjective:  (obsolete) Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.

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