detersive
detersive adjective: having cleansing abilities.
Adjective
detersive (comparative more detersive, superlative most detersive)
- Having cleansing abilities
- The powdered roots of the Guayacan (lignum vitae) have detersive properties, and were once used as a household cleaning agent.
Noun
detersive (plural detersives)
- A cleansing agent; a detergent.
detersive meaning in Tamil and Bengali
detersive in Tamil
- தூய்மையாக்கி
detersive in Bengali
- পরিষ্কার করার ক্ষমতা সম্পন্ন, পরিষ্কারক উপাদান, একটি ডিটারজেন্ট
Forms of detersive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more detersive |
| superlative | most detersive |
| Noun | |
| plural | detersives |
Origin of detersive
Compare French détersif.
Words formed from detersive
Words that rhyme with detersive
- recursive
- cursive
- immersive
- adversive
- animadversive
- aversive
- conversive
- discursive
- dispersive
- excursive
- introversive
- semicursive
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- subversive
- abstersive
- antidiscursive
- antisubversive
- aspersive
- co-recursive
- compersive
- contraversive
- corecursive
- counterdiscursive
- countersubversive
- cyberdiscursive
- electrodispersive
- eversive
- extroversive
- immunosubversive
- incursive
- interconversive
- interdiscursive
- inversive
- ipsiversive
- left-recursive
- macrodiscursive
- metadiscursive
- microdiscursive
- monodispersive
- nonaversive
- noncursive
- nondiscursive
- nondispersive
- nonimmersive
- nonrecursive
- nonsubversive
- overdispersive
- perversive
- photoaversive
- polydispersive
- precursive
- primitive recursive
- proaversive
- procursive
- pursive
- reversive
- Roman cursive
- semiodiscoursive
- submersive
- subrecursive
- superrecursive
Questions about detersive
- What does detersive mean?
- Detersive means having cleansing abilities.
- What is detersive in Tamil?
- Detersive in Tamil is தூய்மையாக்கி. See Detersive meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is detersive?
- Detersive can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near detersive in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: detersive (page history and authors); detersive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); detersive (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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