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incapacitative

incapacitative adjective: of or pertaining to being incapacitated.

Adjective

incapacitative (comparative more incapacitative, superlative most incapacitative)

  1. Of or pertaining to being incapacitated.
    • [I]t states that punishment should serve retributive, educational, deterrent, and incapacitative goals.1989, Justice Blackmun in Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361

Forms of incapacitative

comparativemore incapacitative
superlativemost incapacitative

Questions about incapacitative

What does incapacitative mean?
Incapacitative means of or pertaining to being incapacitated.
What part of speech is incapacitative?
Incapacitative is an adjective.

Words near incapacitative in the dictionary

  1. incapacitated
  2. incapacitates
  3. incapacitating
  4. incapacitation
  5. incapacitations
  6. incapacitative
  7. incapacities
  8. incapacity
  9. incaps
  10. incapsidation
  11. incapsidations

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