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disseminative

disseminative adjective: tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated (scattered, or widespread), spreadable.

Adjective

disseminative (comparative more disseminative, superlative most disseminative)

  1. Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated (scattered, or widespread), spreadable.
    • The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative.1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC

Forms of disseminative

comparativemore disseminative
superlativemost disseminative

Origin of disseminative

From disseminate + -ive.

Questions about disseminative

What does disseminative mean?
Disseminative means tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated (scattered, or widespread), spreadable.
What part of speech is disseminative?
Disseminative is an adjective.

Words near disseminative in the dictionary

  1. disseminates
  2. disseminating
  3. dissemination
  4. disseminational
  5. disseminations
  6. disseminative
  7. disseminator
  8. disseminators
  9. disseminatory
  10. disseminule
  11. disseminules

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