Sekirov Dictionary

separative

/ˈsɛp(ə)ɹətɪv/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

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Serving to separate.
- […] that much more full and eminent Experiment of the Separative Virtue of extream Cold, that was made, against their Wills, by the […] Dutch men that Winter’d in Nova Zembla — 1661
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(rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
- Pye had never forgotten or forgiven the ingenious fraud. It had taught him secretiveness, made him even more lone and separative. He had withdrawn from the world of men, academic and otherwise. — 1935

noun1

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Something that serves to separate.
- He […] independently identified the oblique wedge as a separative of words [in cuneiform writing] […] — 1916

forms

separatives · more separative · most separative

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