disoperative
disoperative adjective: hostile and antagonistic toward any form of cooperation or social cohesion; characterized by disoperation.
Adjective
disoperative (comparative more disoperative, superlative most disoperative)
- Hostile and antagonistic toward any form of cooperation or social cohesion; characterized by disoperation.
- The building-up of a particular community is primarily a matter of cooperation in effecting favorable reactions, but after a longer or shorter period of occupation the reactions become disoperative, and the community is gradually displaced through the competition of one better adapted to the...1935, Carl Murchison, Warder Clyde Allee, A Handbook of Social Psychology
- Along the continuum of behavior from total disoperation to total cooperation, we must make another quantum leap since our established modes and mad emphasis on competition has become disoperative.1980, Adam Apple, A Megasynthesis, page 332
Forms of disoperative
| comparative | more disoperative |
|---|---|
| superlative | most disoperative |
Origin of disoperative
From dis- + operative, by analogy to cooperative.
Words formed from disoperative
Questions about disoperative
- What does disoperative mean?
- Disoperative means hostile and antagonistic toward any form of cooperation or social cohesion; characterized by disoperation.
- What part of speech is disoperative?
- Disoperative is an adjective.
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