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violative

violative adjective: tending to violate; constituting a violation; of or relating to violation.

Adjective

violative (comparative more violative, superlative most violative)

  1. (US) Tending to violate; constituting a violation; of or relating to violation.
    • If a restaurant had a policy that two blacks or two Catholics could not sit together, everyone would understand that that policy is unacceptable and illegal. Similarly, we feel that insisting that two people of the same sex cannot sit together is also violative of the law.1983 August 20, Sue Hyde, quoting Gloria Allred, “'Romantic Dinners' For Hets Only?”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 2
    • If YouTube finds fewer videos to be violative — and therefore removes fewer of them — the percentage of violative video views may decrease. And none of the data is subject to an independent audit, although the company did not rule that out in the future.2021 April 6, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “YouTube discloses the percentage of views going to videos that break its rules.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    violatory

violative meaning in Tamil and Urdu

violative in Tamil

மீறும்படியான

violative in Urdu

آبرو ریزانہ, بےادبانہ, فاسخانہ

Synonyms of violative

Forms of violative

comparativemore violative
superlativemost violative

Origin of violative

From violate + -ive.

Words formed from violative

Questions about violative

What does violative mean?
Violative means tending to violate; constituting a violation; of or relating to violation.
What is violative in Tamil?
Violative in Tamil is மீறும்படியான. See Violative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is violative?
Violative is an adjective.

Words near violative in the dictionary

  1. violational
  2. violationism
  3. violationist
  4. violationists
  5. violations
  6. violative
  7. violatively
  8. violator
  9. violators
  10. violatory
  11. violatress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: violative (page history and authors); violative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); violative (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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