Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

CONTRACTIVE

Definition: CONTRACTIVE

CONTRACTIVE

Adjective

1. Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Commercial Usage: CONTRACTIVE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Methods in Enzymology: Structural and Contractile Proteins: Part C, the Contractive Apparatus and the Cytoskeleton (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: CONTRACTIVE

Language Translations for "CONTRACTIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tkurrës (contractile). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

който сгъва, който свива (constringent, contractile). (various references)

   

Czech

  

stahovací (constringent). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

összehúzó (astringent, constrictive, constrictor, constringent, contractile, styptic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ontractivecay

   

Portuguese

  

contrativo. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сжимающийся (coercible, compressible, squeezable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

skraćen (contracted, part time), sažet (compendious, concise, laconic, lapidary, succinct, terse). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

contractivo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förkortande. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

здатний стискатися. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

co lại được, l m co. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Misspellings: CONTRACTIVE

Misspellings

"CONTRACTIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contractee, contracture. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "CONTRACTIVE"

Words rhyming with "CONTRACTIVE" (pronounced 'Con*tract"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assentive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Fluxive, impressive, ineffective, inexpressive, infective, instructive, inventive, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Protective. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: CONTRACTIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-o-r-t-t-v"

-2 letters: accretion, anorectic, carnotite, recontact, reconvict.

-3 letters: accentor, acentric, acetonic, anoretic, cavicorn, coactive, cocinera, conative, concerti, contract, contrite, contrive, cratonic, creation, interact, invocate, narcotic, navicert, necrotic, reaction, rotative, taconite, tectonic, traction, tractive, veronica.

-4 letters: aconite, acronic, acrotic, carotin, cattier, cavetti, cavetto, centavo, centric, ceratin, cerotic, certain, citator, citrate, cittern, cocaine, coenact, cointer, concave, conceit.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-o-r-t-t-v"
 

+2 letters: concentrative, contraceptive, counteractive.

 

+3 letters: contraceptives.

 

+5 letters: overaccentuating, vasoconstrictive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.