Another inciteful question from Don Jr.
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It is recognized as a word.
It means to incite. To instigate. To rouse. An inciteful statement would be telling people to do something.
An insightful statement would be a statement like this.
that’s what it would mean, if it was a word, but it isn’t
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inciteful
How do you think words come to being?
By legitimately combining root words with prefixes and suffixes according to their meanings.
“Inciteful” may one day be a word - but not yet!
Well, do we need to wait for a committee of words to one day decide 'let inciteful be a word'? Fuck no, we just use it.
Merriam-Webster adds and changes definitions all the time.
It was in a (hard copy) version of an Oxford English Dictionary, for example.
Also, it was directly used as far back as 1971 -- so it's not a new word or use case.