English > causative: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | 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 |