Separative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsɛp(ə)ɹətɪv/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Separative is an adjective meaning Serving to separate.
Meaning
Serving to separate.
More Meanings
- Something that serves to separate.
- (rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
Example Sentences
He […] independently identified the oblique wedge as a separative of words [in cuneiform writing] […]
I was working hard, and living a rather separative existence, without realizing at the time what this aloofness meant for me.
[…] that much more full and eminent Experiment of the Separative Virtue of extream Cold, that was made, against their Wills, by the […] Dutch men that Winter’d in Nova Zembla;
Pye had never forgotten or forgiven the ingenious fraud. It had taught him secretiveness, made him even more lone and separative. He had withdrawn from the world of men, academic and otherwise.
Word Forms
- separatives
Synonyms for separative
Depending on context, synonyms include disjunctive, partitive, distributive.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include partitive, distributive, disjunctive, separable, separatable, distinguishing.
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