Usually means: Expresses state, not dynamic action.
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  1. stative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stative: Merriam-Webster
  3. stative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stative: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stative: Vocabulary.com
  7. stative: Wordnik
  8. stative: Wiktionary
  9. stative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. stative: Dictionary.com
  13. Stative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Stative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. stative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. stative: Rhymezone
  17. Stative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. stative: FreeDictionary.org
  19. stative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. stative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. stative: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See statives as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (grammar) Of a verb: asserting, generally intransitively, that a subject has a particular property or status.
adjective:  (military, obsolete, rare) Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
noun:  (grammar) A construct asserting that a subject has a particular property.

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