Meaning

2 senses
  1. Tending to dissect.

  2. Referring to a number of individual or separate things rather than a mass (e.g. snowflakes rather than snow).

Origin

From dissect + -ive.

From dissect + -ive.

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Forms

more dissective, most dissective
Comparativemore dissective Lesson
Superlativemost dissective Lesson

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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