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promotive

promotive adjective: tending to promote.

Adjective

promotive (comparative more promotive, superlative most promotive)

  1. Tending to promote
    • And consequently, the utilitarian standard, while it tolerates and approves those other acquired desires, up to the point beyond which they would be more injurious to the general happiness than promotive of it, enjoins and requires the cultivation of the love of virtue up to the greatest strength...1861, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

Forms of promotive

comparativemore promotive
superlativemost promotive

Origin of promotive

From promote + -ive.

Words formed from promotive

Questions about promotive

What does promotive mean?
Promotive means tending to promote.
What part of speech is promotive?
Promotive is an adjective.

Words near promotive in the dictionary

  1. promotional copy
  2. promotionalism
  3. promotionally
  4. promotionals
  5. promotions
  6. promotive
  7. promotively
  8. promotiveness
  9. promotor
  10. promotorial
  11. promotorless

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