Word.ws English Dictionary

isolative

isolative adjective: relating to, characterized by, or causing isolation.

Adjective

isolative (comparative more isolative, superlative most isolative)

  1. Relating to, characterized by, or causing isolation.
    • It's when the computer becomes socially isolative that there's a problem.2001 October 7, Jane Gordon, “Home Computer 101: Parents Set Up Rules”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Nov 2012
    • Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such individuals isolative and difficult.2003 April 30, Hazel Muir, “Einstein and Newton showed signs of autism”, in New Scientist, retrieved 15 Nov 2012

Forms of isolative

comparativemore isolative
superlativemost isolative

Origin of isolative

From isolate + -ive.

Questions about isolative

What does isolative mean?
Isolative means relating to, characterized by, or causing isolation.
What part of speech is isolative?
Isolative is an adjective.

Words near isolative in the dictionary

  1. isolationists
  2. isolations
  3. isolationship
  4. isolationships
  5. isolatitude
  6. isolative
  7. isolato
  8. isolatoes
  9. isolator
  10. isolators
  11. isolatos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: isolative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “isolative.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/isolative. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.