Word.ws English Dictionary

circulative

UK/ˈsɜː.kjʊˌleɪ.tɪv/US/ˈsɝ.kjʊˌleɪ.tɪv/

circulative adjective: promoting circulation; circulating.

Adjective

circulative (not comparable)

  1. Promoting circulation; circulating.
    • [T]he revenues of the church are in some sort the reversionary property of every family that may have a member educated for the church, or a daughter that may marry a clergyman. Instead of being foreclosed and immovable, it is, in fact, the only species of landed property that is essentially moving...1830, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Concerning the Right Idea of the Constitution. Paragraph the Fourth.”, in On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the Idea of Each: […], London...

Origin of circulative

From circulate + -ive.

Words formed from circulative

Questions about circulative

What does circulative mean?
Circulative means promoting circulation; circulating.
What part of speech is circulative?
Circulative is an adjective.
How do you pronounce circulative?
Circulative is pronounced /ˈsɜː.kjʊˌleɪ.tɪv/ (UK).

Words near circulative in the dictionary

  1. circulationary
  2. circulationism
  3. circulationist
  4. circulationists
  5. circulations
  6. circulative
  7. circulator
  8. circulatories
  9. circulatorious
  10. circulators
  11. circulatory

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: circulative (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “circulative.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/circulative. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.