Meaning

3 senses
  1. Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction.

  2. Mapping from a space onto a subset of that space.

  3. Serving to distance or alienate.

Origin

From retract + -ive.

From retract + -ive.

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Forms

more retractive, most retractive
Comparativemore retractive Lesson
Superlativemost retractive Lesson

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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