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DISINTEGRATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disintegrative mean?
• DISINTEGRATIVE (adjective)
The adjective DISINTEGRATIVE has 1 sense:
1. tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts
Familiarity information: DISINTEGRATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts
Similar:
clastic (of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone))
decompositional (causing organic decay)
Antonym:
integrative (combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole)
Derivation:
disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)
disintegrate (cause to undergo fission or lose particles)
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