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dissolutive

dissolutive adjective: producing dissolution; dissolvent.

Adjective

dissolutive (comparative more dissolutive, superlative most dissolutive)

  1. (archaic) Producing dissolution; dissolvent.
    • It seemed a perfect tonic to the man to seek out some long-established relationship […] and interpose his dissolutive bulk between the pair-bonding, unsticking the accretions of years, experiences, children…even love.1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 14

Forms of dissolutive

comparativemore dissolutive
superlativemost dissolutive

Questions about dissolutive

What does dissolutive mean?
Dissolutive means producing dissolution; dissolvent.
What part of speech is dissolutive?
Dissolutive is an adjective.

Words near dissolutive in the dictionary

  1. dissolutional
  2. dissolutionism
  3. dissolutionist
  4. dissolutionists
  5. dissolutions
  6. dissolutive
  7. dissolvabilities
  8. dissolvability
  9. dissolvable
  10. dissolvableness
  11. dissolvables

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