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dissective

dissective adjective: tending to dissect.

Adjective

dissective (comparative more dissective, superlative most dissective)

  1. Tending to dissect.
  2. Referring to a number of individual or separate things rather than a mass (e.g. snowflakes rather than snow).

Forms of dissective

comparativemore dissective
superlativemost dissective

Origin of dissective

From dissect + -ive.

Questions about dissective

What does dissective mean?
Dissective means tending to dissect.
What part of speech is dissective?
Dissective is an adjective.

Words near dissective in the dictionary

  1. dissecting microscopes
  2. dissectings
  3. dissection
  4. dissectional
  5. dissections
  6. dissective
  7. dissectologist
  8. dissectology
  9. dissector
  10. dissectors
  11. dissects

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