English
pretensively
From pretensive + -ly.
Formed from pretensive + -ly
Proto-Indo-European *téndeti
Proto-Italic *tendō ‘to stretch’
Latin tendō ‘stretch, strive for’
Latin praetendō ‘to stretch forth or forward’
English pretensive
Today it means
adv In a pretensive manner.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pretensively”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / pretensively