Separative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Separative \Sep"a*ra*tive\, a. [L. separativus.]
     Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of
     extreme cold." --Boyle.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  separative
       adj 1: used of an accent in Hebrew orthography; indicates that the
              word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree
              rhythmically and grammatically from the word that
              follows it
       2: serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive
          tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was
          stronger than the separative" [syn: {partitive}]
       3: (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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "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