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Definition: Divisive |
DivisiveAdjective1. Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Divisive \Di*vi"sive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression divisif.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DivisiveSynonyms: dissentious (adj), factious (adj). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Abortion: The Divisive Issue (1979) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Divisive force / Gib Crockett. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | South Africa | Education Minister Kader Asmal, who spoke at an ANC gathering in nearby Langa, criticized the gathering as sectarian, divisive, and non-inclusive. (references) |
Bulgaria | These provisions are designed to prevent the development of parties based on a single ethnic or other group that could prove divisive for national unity by stirring up ethnic tensions for political purposes. (references) | |
Mauritania | Among these are the Mauritanian Association for Human Rights (AMDH) and SOS-Esclaves (an antislavery NGO), which the Government claims potentially are divisive in that they appeal to specific ethnic groups, namely the southern and Black Moor communities respectively. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | The role of Islam in Indonesia became a divisive issue. (references) |
Sudan | The civil war was particularly divisive (see "Civil Strife" below). (references) | |
Swaziland | He justified his actions as having removed alien and divisive political practices incompatible with the Swazi way of life. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burkina Faso | During the year, the Zongo case remained a highly divisive issue. (references) |
Mauritania | The Government has not responded to the applications of these organizations, on the grounds that they are ethnically based organizations that are divisive and in violation of the law; however, the unrecognized organizations continued to carry out their activities unimpeded. (references) | |
Political Economy | Iran | In many cases, this struggle was played out within the Government itself, with reformists and hard-liners squaring off in divisive internal debates. (references) |
Political Rights | Bhutan | Political parties do not exist legally, and the Government discourages their formation as divisive. (references) |
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Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | The divisive force is International Communism and the power that it controls. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | But as we saw the consequences of what we had done, inevitable remorse and divisive recrimination would scar our spirit as a people. |
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| "Divisive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Divisive" is used about 199 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 199 | 21,651 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
divisive | 10 |
author corp divisive expert french from proposal rand resigns saudi | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "divisive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përçarës (disruptive, factious, schismatic, schismatical, splitting), ndarës (dividing, divisional, parting, partitive, separator, sorter, spacer, splitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقسم (dividing), مسبب للخلاف, مسبب للشقاق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | който причинява разкол, делителен (divisional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 离间. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vedoucí k nejednotnosti, rozvratný (disruptive, subversive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تفرقه انداز, تقسیم کننده (Denominator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui sème discorde, qui entraîne la division, qui cause la division. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | teilend (apportioning, dividing, severing, sharing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαιρετικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפל' (division, section, squad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megosztó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bersifat membagi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivisiveday сеющий распри. (various references) razdoran, koji razdvaja. (various references) divisivo. (various references) dağıtan (distributive, spreading), bölen (denominator, disjunctive, divider, dividing, divisor, parting), ayrılık yaratan, anlaşmazlık çıkaran. (various references) роз'"днуючий (disjunctive, dissociative), що виклика" чвари, аналітичний (analytic, analytical, theoretical). (various references) l m ly gián, gây chia rẽ, gây bất ho . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "divisive": divisively, divisiveness, divisivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Divisive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: devisive, dirisive, divicive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "divisive" (pronounced divī"siv) |
| 4 | -ī" s i v | decisive, incisive, indecisive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, abusive, adhesive, aggressive, allusive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, collusive, comprehensive, compulsive, conclusive, conducive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, effusive, elusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, exclusive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, illusive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, inclusive, inconclusive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, massive, missive, nonexclusive, nonresponsive, obsessive, obtrusive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reclusive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unobtrusive, unresponsive. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-i-s-v-v" | |
-1 letter: divvies. | |
-2 letters: visive. | |
-3 letters: dives, ivied, ivies, vised, vivid. | |
-4 letters: devs, dies, dive, ides, side, vide, vied, vies, vise, vive. | |
-5 letters: dev, die, dis, eds, ids, sei, vie, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-i-s-v-v" | |
+2 letters: divisively. | |
+4 letters: divisiveness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 76 69 73 69 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i v i s i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0076 0069 0073 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875887585758871 |
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