CURSIVE Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

Definition of cursive

as in handwriting

a type of writing in which all the letters in a word are connected to each other He writes in cursive when he takes notes.

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adjective

as in informal

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Recent Examples of cursive

Noun

Her granddaughter was able to read a letter that her deceased father, the lawmaker’s son, had written in cursive only because her school still chose to teach the skill. — Mary Jean Tecce Decarlo, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026 The letters from Mexico arrived on graph paper, in a tight cursive that the South African students had never seen before. — Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026

Adjective

However, many states have brought cursive requirements back to the classroom, with 27 states now mandating cursive instruction. — Jillian Pretzel, Parents, 30 June 2026 Leaning minimal, opt for simple cursive lettering spelling out the best city in the world. — Amanda Le, InStyle, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for cursive

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cursive

Noun

The support for styluses like the Surface Pen on touch screens is robust, with incredibly smooth handwriting-to-text conversion and pressure sensitivity.

— Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
The teachers scanned their work and used AI to analyze how their handwriting could improve.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of handwriting

Adjective

Gun homicides mostly affect South Africa’s poorest communities in townships and informal settlements made up of shacks and small homes on the edges of big cities.

— Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
Gun homicides mostly affect South Africa's poorest communities in townships and informal settlements made up of shacks and small homes on the edges of many big cities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of informal

Noun

The latest monthly nonfarm payrolls data and unemployment rate are due out later in the week, following the core PCE index and latest quarterly GDP growth print.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
On September 23, the actress was spotted out and about in head-to-toe animal print.

— Meg Walters, InStyle, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of print

Adjective

The agent gained unauthorized access to the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, enabling it to access both public and non-public files, and to write files to an internal server.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026
Those capabilities include autonomous self-improvement, attempts to evade oversight, and certain forms of unauthorized system access.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of unauthorized

Adjective

Security Accounting software contains sensitive financial information, so only consider a platform with strong security measures like encryption, secure bank connections, authentication and automatic data backups.

— Carson Brunson, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
District title races rev up Friday night with 14 of the Sentinel Super 16 teams playing games that count in the chase for automatic state playoff berths.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of automatic

Adjective

The young mother was diagnosed with a spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD).

— Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
The Pisces Moon in your finance zone squares your ruler Uranus in your playful 5th house, making spontaneous plans, tickets, hobbies, or treats harder to resist.

— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of spontaneous

Adjective

There had been this instinctive belief that maybe somebody like that could protect himself.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026
The Vulcan became more emotionless, while William Shatner’s Kirk — who replaced Jeffrey Hunter’s Pike — became a little more instinctive.

— Neil Oseman, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of instinctive

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