divisive
Etymology
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Etymology
From dīvīs-, past-participle stem of Latin dīvidere + -ive.
Pronunciation Adjectivedivisive
- 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; [...]
- French: clivant
- German: spaltend, entzweiend, teilend
- Russian: раскольнический
- Spanish: divisivo
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