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

• contractiveness
  noun
• contractively
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of contractive

First recorded in 1615–25; contract + -ive

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

contractive

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

In like manner, sulphur represents the active and passive principle of fire: the contractive force, or negative electricity—oxygen—produces flame; and the dilative force, or positive electricity—hydrogen—produces warmth.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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 Havelock Ellis

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 Ernst Lehrs