Associations to the word «Stative»

Wiktionary

STATIVE, adjective. (grammar) asserting that a subject has a particular property
STATIVE, adjective. (military) (obsolete) (rare) Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.

Dictionary definition

STATIVE, adjective. ( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin