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substractive

substractive is the nonstandard form of subtractive.

Meaning of subtractive

Adjective

subtractive (comparative more subtractive, superlative most subtractive)

  1. Of or pertaining to subtraction.
  2. Of a colour: from which some wavelengths have been removed.

Questions about substractive

What is substractive the nonstandard form of?
Substractive is the nonstandard form of subtractive.

Words near substractive in the dictionary

  1. substract
  2. substracted
  3. substracting
  4. substraction
  5. substractions
  6. substractive
  7. substracts
  8. substrain
  9. substrains
  10. substrata
  11. substratal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substractive (page history and authors); subtractive (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.

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