Synonyms & related words for exhortative

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Words related to exhortative

Explore words related to exhortative — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include exhortatory, hortative, hortatory, exhorting, exhorted, hortation, encouraging, cohortative. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does exhortative come from?

The word exhortative breaks down into 3 roots of Latin origin: ex-, from Latin ex (“thoroughly”); hort, from Latin hortari (“to urge, encourage”); and -ative, from Latin ativus (“tending to”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.