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

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Etymology

Origin of contractive

First recorded in 1615–25; contract + -ive

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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

The contractive view, which still largely persists even to-day, speedily took over much of the Canon law doctrines of marriage, becoming in practice a kind of reformed and secularized Canon law.

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

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 Havelock Ellis

And the doctor, by sundry tests and applications, showed the peculiar exhausted and contractive condition of the muscles.

From Master of His Fate by J. Mclaren Cobban

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