Nonoperative

Quick meaning: Nonoperative is an adjective meaning Not requiring or involving a medical operation or surgery.

Meaning

Not requiring or involving a medical operation or surgery.

More Meanings

1. Not operative, not operational; inoperative.
2. (uncommon) One who is not an operative (“employee or worker”).

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: nonfunctional, nonfunctioning

[...] proportion of nonoperatives in total employment in all British manufacturing industries from 1948 to 1962.

The historical cost of the property which was estimated to become nonoperative was set forth by the Commission's engineers, in Application No. 4440, as $36,278.

Practically 50 per cent of the female operatives are found in the two groups aged 15 to 19 and 20 to 24 years, while only 18.2 per cent of the female nonoperatives are found in these age groups.

Word Forms

• nonoperatives

Synonyms for nonoperative

Depending on context, synonyms include nonsurgical, nonfunctional, nonfunctioning.

Antonyms for nonoperative

Common opposites include operative, surgical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include non-op, nonsurgical, nonoperating, nonsuction, nonoperational, pre-op.

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