optative
- Adjective. expressing a wish or a choice.
- Adjective. elated or pertaining to the optative mood.
- Noun. (grammar) a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Latin), used to express a wish. English has no inflexional optative mood, but it has modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility.
- Noun. a verb or expression in the optative mood.
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