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disjustive

disjustive adjective: tending to create or emphasize a difference, contrast, or lack of adjustment.

Adjective

disjustive (comparative more disjustive, superlative most disjustive)

  1. Tending to create or emphasize a difference, contrast, or lack of adjustment.
    • Both the Hebrew and the Greek say, " I am black and comely, while the Vulgate changes the copulative " and " to the disjustive " but."1893, Rufus Lewis Perry, The Cushite, Or, The Descendants of Ham
    • The milder case, where sex and sensory impressions exert a disjustive pressure, are viewed as natural traits.1913 August, S.N. Patten, “The Genesis of Personal Traits”, in Popular Science, page 157

Forms of disjustive

comparativemore disjustive
superlativemost disjustive

Questions about disjustive

What does disjustive mean?
Disjustive means tending to create or emphasize a difference, contrast, or lack of adjustment.
What part of speech is disjustive?
Disjustive is an adjective.

Words near disjustive in the dictionary

  1. disjunctor
  2. disjunctors
  3. disjuncts
  4. disjuncture
  5. disjunctures
  6. disjustive
  7. disk
  8. disk access time
  9. disk access times
  10. disk brake
  11. disk brakes

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