contractive

American  

[kuhn-trak-tiv] / kənˈtræk tɪv /

adjective

1. serving or tending to contract.

2. capable of contracting.

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Other Word Forms

• contractively adverb
• contractiveness noun

Etymology

Origin of contractive

First recorded in 1615–25; contract + -ive

Example Sentences

The current economic context suggests the board should maintain a contractive stance on monetary policy to bring inflation towards the target, the report added.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2023

The gas burner is made of a metal having great expansive and contractive properties.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various

Even if marriage is placed on the most prosaic contractive basis it is a mistake, and indeed an impossibility, to pre-ordain the length of its duration.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

There must always be contractive elements, implicit or explicit, in a marriage; that was well recognized even by the Canonists.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock

And the forms of the cumuli themselves tell us in manifold metamorphoses of a state of equilibrium between expansive and contractive tendencies within the atmosphere.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst