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contraindicative

contraindicative adjective: serving as a contraindication.

Adjective

contraindicative (comparative more contraindicative, superlative most contraindicative)

  1. Serving as a contraindication.
    • They then constructed two indexes in the ratings obtained from mothers, fathers, and children. One was indicative of creativity and one contained contraindicative items.1999, Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker, Encyclopedia of creativity: Volume 2, page 29

Synonyms of contraindicative

Forms of contraindicative

comparativemore contraindicative
superlativemost contraindicative

Origin of contraindicative

From contra- + indicative.

Questions about contraindicative

What does contraindicative mean?
Contraindicative means serving as a contraindication.
What part of speech is contraindicative?
Contraindicative is an adjective.

Words near contraindicative in the dictionary

  1. contraindicated
  2. contraindicates
  3. contraindicating
  4. contraindication
  5. contraindications
  6. contraindicative
  7. contraindicator
  8. contraindicators
  9. contraindicatory
  10. contraintuitive
  11. contraire

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