separative
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
separative
adj 1: (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that
the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser
degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that
follows it
2: serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive
tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger
than the separative" [syn: {partitive}, {separative}]
3: (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the
members of a group; "whereas `each,' `every,' `either,'
`neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a
single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is
separative"
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "separative":
ablative, biodegradable, characteristic, characterizing,
contrastive, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, degradable,
diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential,
differentiative, dilapidated, discriminating, discriminative,
disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative,
disjunctive, disruptive, distinctive, distinguishing, dividing,
erosive, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive,
exclusory, idiosyncratic, inadmissible, individualizing,
individuating, insular, moldering, narrow, parochial, parting,
peculiar, personalizing, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive,
prohibitive, ravaged, resolvent, restrictive, ruinous, seclusive,
segregative, select, selective, separating, snobbish, solvent,
worn, xenophobic
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