Meaning

2 senses
  1. Tending to arrest.

    Tending to stop or slow a process.

  2. (dated)Tending to capture people’s attention.

Origin

From arrest + -ive.

From arrest + -ive.

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Forms

more arrestive, most arrestive
Comparativemore arrestive Lesson
Superlativemost arrestive Lesson

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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