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dominative

dominative adjective: exhibiting or pertaining to domination.

Adjective

dominative (comparative more dominative, superlative most dominative)

  1. Exhibiting or pertaining to domination.
    • A sustained dominative pattern was consistently disliked by pupils, reduced their ability to recall, later on, the material studied, and produced disruptive anxiety as indicated by galvanic skin response and changes in the heartbeat rates.1969, Lois N. Nelson, The nature of teaching: a collection of readings

Forms of dominative

comparativemore dominative
superlativemost dominative

Origin of dominative

From dominate + -ive.

Words formed from dominative

Questions about dominative

What does dominative mean?
Dominative means exhibiting or pertaining to domination.
What part of speech is dominative?
Dominative is an adjective.

Words near dominative in the dictionary

  1. domination line
  2. domination lines
  3. domination number
  4. domination numbers
  5. dominations
  6. dominative
  7. dominator
  8. dominators
  9. dominatour
  10. dominatours
  11. dominatrices

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