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interventive

US/ɪntɚˈvɛntəv/

interventive adjective: serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.

Adjective

interventive (comparative more interventive, superlative most interventive)

  1. Serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
    • The Laws, or Interventive Regulations, obviate or decide disputes, between players, respecting punctilios in placing the board and pieces, and limit the penalties for irregularities.1817, William Jones, “Towards attaining a fixed Principle on a contested Elementary Point”, in Studies of Chess, page 405
    • In a hospital setting, midwives are following protocols that are part of a more interventive model of care.1997 June 20, Angela Bowman, “Labor Dispute”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of interventive

comparativemore interventive
superlativemost interventive

Origin of interventive

From intervene + -ive cognate with French interventive.

Words formed from interventive

  • interventively
  • interventiveness

Questions about interventive

What does interventive mean?
Interventive means serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
What part of speech is interventive?
Interventive is an adjective.
How do you pronounce interventive?
Interventive is pronounced /ɪntɚˈvɛntəv/ (US).

Words near interventive in the dictionary

  1. interventionist
  2. interventionistic
  3. interventionistically
  4. interventionists
  5. interventions
  6. interventive
  7. interventor
  8. interventors
  9. interventral
  10. interventricular
  11. interventricular septa

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