combinative
tending or serving to combine.
of, relating to, or resulting from combination.
Origin of combinative
1Other words from combinative
- non·com·bi·na·tive, adjective
- un·com·bi·na·tive, adjective
Words Nearby combinative
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How to use combinative in a sentence
Primitive man was a combinative beast, and because of it he rose to primacy over all the animals.
The Iron Heel | Jack LondonThey have great imagination, but it is the "combinative" imagination rather than the free poetic fancy of the Celt.
The Old World in the New | Edward Alsworth RossThis requires a higher type of mental association (combinative power) than mere enumeration.
The Measurement of Intelligence | Lewis Madison Terman
British Dictionary definitions for combinative
combinatorial (ˌkɒmbɪnəˈtɔːrɪəl) or combinatory (ˈkɒmbɪnətərɪ, -trɪ)
/ (ˈkɒmbɪˌneɪtɪv, -nətɪv) /
resulting from being, tending to be, or able to be joined or mixed together
linguistics (of a sound change) occurring only in specific contexts or as a result of some other factor, such as change of stress within a word: Compare isolative (def. 1)
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