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disorientative

disorientative adjective: tending to disorient; causing disorientation.

Adjective

disorientative (comparative more disorientative, superlative most disorientative)

  1. Tending to disorient; causing disorientation.
    • Toxic—hallucinatory—disorientative reactions (delirium).1941, Esther Loring Richards, Introduction to psychobiology and psychiatry, a textbook for nurses
    • Various subcategories of discontinuity (implicit, internal, modal, external) can be applied, to demonstrate the adaptational and disorientative function of art within different media and historical periods.2001, Ken Ireland, Sequential Dynamics of Narrative

Forms of disorientative

comparativemore disorientative
superlativemost disorientative

Origin of disorientative

From disorient + -ative.

Questions about disorientative

What does disorientative mean?
Disorientative means tending to disorient; causing disorientation.
What part of speech is disorientative?
Disorientative is an adjective.

Words near disorientative in the dictionary

  1. disorientated
  2. disorientates
  3. disorientating
  4. disorientation
  5. disorientations
  6. disorientative
  7. disoriented
  8. disorientedly
  9. disorientedness
  10. disorienter
  11. disorienters

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