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avertive

avertive is the alternative form of aversive.

Meaning of aversive

Adjective

aversive (comparative more aversive, superlative most aversive)

  1. Tending to repel; causing avoidance.
    • "I say—Nora, you, really you?" he cried, transported in turn, and to do him justice he did not seem to notice anything aversive in her disorder—or, indeed, to notice anything but her excited young face.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

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Forms of avertive

Adjective
comparativemore avertive
superlativemost avertive
Noun
pluralavertives

Questions about avertive

What is avertive the alternative form of?
Avertive is the alternative form of aversive.

Words near avertive in the dictionary

  1. avertiments
  2. avertin
  3. averting
  4. avertissement
  5. avertissements
  6. avertive
  7. avertives
  8. avertress
  9. avertresses
  10. averts
  11. averufin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: avertive (page history and authors); aversive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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