English > causative: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | producing an effect. |
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Example | "poverty as a causative factor in crime" |
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Narrower | abortifacient | Causing abortion |
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activating, actuating | Causing motion or action or change |
anorectic, anorexigenic | Causing loss of appetite |
causal | Involving or constituting a cause |
conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary | tending to bring about |
errhine | Causing nasal discharge |
fast | (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time |
inductive, inducive | inducing or influencing |
motivative, motive, motivating | impelling to action / action |
motive, motor | Causing or able to cause motion |
precipitating | bringing on suddenly or abruptly |
responsible, responsible for | The agent or cause |
sternutatory, sternutative | Causing sneezing |
Opposite | noncausative, noncausal | not causative |
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Spanish | causativo |
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Catalan | causatiu |
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Verbs | cause | cause to do |
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cause | give rise to |