Dispositive

Quick meaning: Dispositive is an adjective meaning Intending to, resulting in, or capable of disposition (disposing, disposing of, or settling a matter).

Meaning

Intending to, resulting in, or capable of disposition (disposing, disposing of, or settling a matter).

More Meanings

1. (Euro-English or non-native speakers' English) Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties, as in ius dispositivum.
2. Alternative form of dispositif.
3. (obsolete) By natural disposition, having such an inclination.

Example Sentences

We were unable to produce any dispositive evidence to support our case.

Controversies about his past loutishness should not be dispositive when deciding whether he should be confirmed. There are ample other reasons to reject his nomination.

...the acquittal of the respondent on the charge of sexual assault causing bodily harm is not dispositive of the question of whether he used an object "in causing... injury" so as to make that object a weapon.

Apollinaire thus used some of the characteristics of the cinematographic and phonographic dispositives and their variables related to viewing or listening apparatuses that preceded or are contemporary to the cinema.

Word Forms

• dispositives

Antonyms for dispositive

Common opposites include cogent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decisive, operative, determinant, crucial, device, predicate.

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