divisive
Etymology

From dīvīs-, past-participle stem of Latin dīvidere + -ive.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/
  • (America, Canada) IPA: /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/, /dɪˈvɪsɪv/, /dɪˈvɪzɪv/
Adjective

divisive

  1. Having a quality that divides or separates.
    Synonyms: disunifying#Adjective
    Antonyms: unifying#Adjective
    Rather than fostering unity, he becomes divisive.
    • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 6, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC ↗, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 66 ↗:
      [W]hat a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! [...] all is grown acrid, divisive, threatening dissolution; [...]
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