mirative

Meanings

Noun

• A grammatical mood that expresses (surprise at) unexpected revelations or new information.
• (An instance of) a form of a word which conveys this mood.

Adjective

• Of or relating to the mirative mood.

Related

Opposite words

• non-mirative

Broader meaning words

• admirative

Origin

• Possibly from admirative, from French admiratif ("tending to admire") (used by French diplomat and scholar Auguste Dozon (1822–1890), imitating the use of the Ancient Greek ἀπροσδόκητος ("unexpected") in a similar context by Albanian translator and scholar Kostandin Kristoforidhi (1826–1895)), from Latin admīrārī, present active infinitive of admīror, from ad- + mīror (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smey- ("to be glad, laugh")).