protestive
English
Etymology
protest + -ive
Adjective
protestive (not comparable)
- Expressing protest.
- 1981, Wanda C. Bronson, Toddlers' Behaviors with Agemates
- Acts include attempt to take, reach for peer's toy, offer-withdraw toy either without vocalization and with neutral affect, or with no more than a brief and mildly protestive vocalization and/or facial expression of frown or pucker.
- 1981, Wanda C. Bronson, Toddlers' Behaviors with Agemates