evolutive

[ ev-uh-loo-tiv or, especially British, ee-vuh- ]

adjective

of, relating to, or promoting evolution; evolutionary: an evolutive process.
tending to evolve, or toward evolution.

Origin of evolutive

First recorded in 1870–75; evolut(ion) + -ive

Words Nearby evolutive

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How to use evolutive in a sentence

I do not wish to assert that all unfamiliar psychical states are necessarily evolutive or dissolutive in any assignable manner.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death | Frederick W. H. Myers

British Dictionary definitions for evolutive

evolutive

/ (ɪˈvɒljʊtɪv) /

adjective

relating to, tending to, or promoting evolution

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