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actional

actional

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actional (comparative more actional, superlative most actional)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or depicting action, especially physical action.
    • 1999, Bruce Bashford, Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist (page 133)
      There is his view discussed earlier, for instance, that the actional realm is inimical to human purpose.
  2. (grammar, of a verb) Depicting an action having an agent and a patient.

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