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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective separative has 3 senses

• separative(s = adj.all) Array - (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it; Array
• separative(s = adj.all) partitive - serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative"
Derived forms verb separate₇, verb separate₁₁

• separative(s = adj.all) Array - (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group; "whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative"

CIDE DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

separative

ablative, biodegradable, characteristic, characterizing, contrastive, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, dilapidated, discriminating, discriminative, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, distinctive, distinguishing, dividing, erosive, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, idiosyncratic, inadmissible, individualizing, individuating, insular, moldering, narrow, parochial, parting, peculiar, personalizing, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, ravaged, resolvent, restrictive, ruinous, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separating, snobbish, solvent, worn, xenophobic

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separative

Decomposition

N decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution, corruption, dispersion, disjunction, disintegration, decomposed, catalytic, analytical, resolvent, separative, solvent.

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