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

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

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; [...]

• combinative
• agglomerative

• French: clivant
• German: spaltend, entzweiend, teilend
• Russian: раскольнический
• Spanish: divisivo