separative

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sep=a=ra=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

separative, a. [L. separativus.].

 Causing, or being to cause, separation.  Boyle.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

separative

ablative, biodegradable, characteristic, characterizing, contrastive, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, diacritical, diagnostic, differencing, differential, differentiative, dilapidated, discriminating, discriminative, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, distinctive, distinguishing, dividing, erosive, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, idiosyncratic, inadmissible, individualizing, individuating, insular, moldering, narrow, parochial, parting, peculiar, personalizing, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, ravaged, resolvent, restrictive, ruinous, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separating, snobbish, solvent, worn, xenophobic

ROGET THESAURUS

separative

Decomposition

N decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution, corruption, dispersion, disjunction, disintegration, decomposed, catalytic, analytical, resolvent, separative, solvent.