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divisive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective divisive has 1 sense
- divisive(s = adj.all) dissentious, factious - dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion); Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
divisive, adj. tending to divide, esp. in opinion; causing disagreement.
Derivative
divisively adv. divisiveness n.
Etymology
LL divisivus (as DIVIDE)
THESAURUS
divisive
aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, combative, disputatious, eristic, factional, factious, irascible, irritable, litigious, partisan, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, shrewish, wrangling
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