impactive
impactive adjective: of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact.
Adjective
impactive (comparative more impactive, superlative most impactive)
- Of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact.
- It is necessary to distinguish all forces sharply into two groups: 1, the attractional (gravity, adhesion, cohesion, chemism), and 2, the impactive or momentum forces of masses, molecules and atoms.1880, W. S. Barnard, “Protoplasmic Dynamics”, in The American Naturalist, volume 14, number 4, page 237
- As Rosemary came onto the beach a boy of twelve ran past her and dashed into the sea with exultant cries. Feeling the impactive scrutiny of strange faces, she took off her bathrobe and followed.1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter II, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1951, →OCLC, book II (Rosemary’s Angle...
Forms of impactive
| comparative | more impactive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most impactive |
Origin of impactive
From impact + -ive.
Words formed from impactive
Questions about impactive
- What does impactive mean?
- Impactive means of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact.
- What part of speech is impactive?
- Impactive is an adjective.
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