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fissive

fissive adjective: of or pertaining to fission.

Adjective

fissive (comparative more fissive, superlative most fissive)

  1. Of or pertaining to fission.
    • The Socialist Party was saved, though not from the fissive tendency that saw its rival factions split away.2009 August 23, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “Bread, Wine, Politics”, in New York Times

Forms of fissive

comparativemore fissive
superlativemost fissive

Questions about fissive

What does fissive mean?
Fissive means of or pertaining to fission.
What part of speech is fissive?
Fissive is an adjective.

Words near fissive in the dictionary

  1. fissipedes
  2. fissipeds
  3. fissirostral
  4. fissis
  5. fissitunicate
  6. fissive
  7. fissle
  8. fissled
  9. fissling
  10. fissula ante fenestram
  11. fissural

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