Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/kuˈɑp.ɹətɪv/ · adjective
Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate..
The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
a cooperative game
a cooperative business enterprise
The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”
Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.
Use co operative when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Co operative means Ready to work with another person or in a team; ready to cooperate..
Common synonyms include joint, helpful, synergistic, concerted.
Possible antonyms include adversarial, competitive, uncooperative.
The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.