RESPECTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respective mean? 

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

1. considered individually

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPECTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Considered individually

Synonyms:

respective; several; various

Context example:

the various reports all agreed

Similar:

individual; single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)

 Context examples 

This leads to an accumulation of the respective neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft and may result in increased postsynaptic receptor activation.

(Cocaine, NCI Thesaurus)

They are destined for each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses; and what is to divide them?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

To make their respective discoveries, each team analysed ALMA observations of HD 163296, a young star about 330 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer).

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)

You and Mr. Elton are by situation called together; you belong to one another by every circumstance of your respective homes.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He saw the two gangs, aggressive and sullen, rigidly keeping apart from each other and backing their respective champions; and he saw himself and Cheese-Face stripping.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sometimes you may have to talk over touchy matters, where you and your partner are strongly wedded to your respective, opposite positions.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Tyrosine phosphorylation of B-Cell Linker by SYK provides docking sites for these SH2-containing effector molecules that, in turn permits the phosphorylation and/or activation of their respective signaling pathways.

(B-Cell Linker, NCI Thesaurus)

A process that involves the binding of any member of the group of amino acid neurotransmitters, including glutamate, aspartate, serine, glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid, to their respective receptors.

(Amino Acid Receptor Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

Very early in April, and tolerably early in the day, the two parties from Hanover Square and Berkeley Street set out from their respective homes, to meet, by appointment, on the road.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

How, in all the peculiar disadvantages of their respective situations, would he ever learn of her real sentiments?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)