CAUSATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does causative mean? 

• CAUSATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CAUSATIVE has 1 sense:

1. producing an effect

  Familiarity information: CAUSATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAUSATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Producing an effect

Context example:

poverty as a causative factor in crime

Similar:

abortifacient (causing abortion)

activating; actuating (causing motion or action or change)

anorectic; anorexigenic (causing loss of appetite)

causal (involving or constituting a cause; causing)

conducive; contributing; contributive; contributory; tributary (tending to bring about; being partly responsible for)

errhine (causing nasal discharge)

fast ((of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time)

inducive; inductive (inducing or influencing; leading on)

motivating; motivative; motive (impelling to action)

motive; motor (causing or able to cause motion)

precipitating (bringing on suddenly or abruptly)

responsible; responsible for (being the agent or cause)

sternutative; sternutatory (causing sneezing)

Antonym:

noncausative (not causative)

Derivation:

cause (cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner)

cause (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)

 Context examples 

It is the most common non-O157 E. coli strain that is the causative agent of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in the United States.

(Escherichia coli strain O111, NCI Thesaurus)

Defects in the gene associated with variant alleles are causative agents for coagulopathy.

(F7 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

M. bovis is pathogenic, being the causative agent of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis.

(Moraxella bovis, NCI Thesaurus)

It is the causative agent of tuberculosis in cattle.

(Mycobacterium bovis, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in GJB3 and GJB4 genes have been identified as causative agents.

(Erythrokeratodermia Variabilis, NCI Thesaurus)

E. brevis is involved in nosocomial infections, being a causative agent of meningitis.

(Empedobacter brevis, NCI Thesaurus)

Causative mutations in the ERCC4 gene and strongly reduced levels of encoded protein can be identified in patients with xeroderma pigmentosum type F.

(DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-4, NCI Thesaurus)

E. tarda is found in the intestinal tracts of snakes and seals and is a causative agent of gastroenteritis in humans.

(Edwardsiella tarda, NCI Thesaurus)

E. meningoceptica is pathogenic, being the causative agent of meningitis in newborns.

(Elizabethkingia meningoceptica, NCI Thesaurus)

Mycobacterium leprae is pathogenic, being the causative agent of leprosy.

(Mycobacterium leprae, NCI Thesaurus)