facilitative
facilitative adjective: having the effect of making easy; assisting, easing or facilitating.
Adjective
facilitative (comparative more facilitative, superlative most facilitative)
- Having the effect of making easy; assisting, easing or facilitating.
- As regards the influence of the metals, it can be deduced from the table that iron is 240 times more collective of charge and facilitative to explosion than the most collective non-metallic substance, — 533,000 times more so than sea water, — 7,500,000 times more so than spring water, rain, snow...1882, Arthur Parnell, The Action of Lightning and the Means of Defending Life and Property from Its Effects, Crosby Lockwood and Company, page 174
- However, in contrast to the facilitative actions in subcortical structures, high levels of catecholamine release in prefrontal cortex result in cognitive dysfunction.1998 June 12, Amy F. T. Arnsten, “NEUROSCIENCE: Enhanced: The Biology of Being Frazzled”, in Science, volume 280, number 5370, →DOI, pages 1711–1712
Forms of facilitative
| comparative | more facilitative |
|---|---|
| superlative | most facilitative |
Origin of facilitative
From facilitate + -ive. Compare Latin facilitātīvus.
Words formed from facilitative
Questions about facilitative
- What does facilitative mean?
- Facilitative means having the effect of making easy; assisting, easing or facilitating.
- What part of speech is facilitative?
- Facilitative is an adjective.
Words near facilitative in the dictionary
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