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affective
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adj 1: characterized by emotion [syn: affectional,
affective, emotive]
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collective
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adj 1: done by or characteristic of individuals acting together;
"a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate
good" [syn: corporate, collective]
2: forming a whole or aggregate [ant: distributive]
3: set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and
production by the workers involved usually under the
supervision of a government; "collective farms"
n 1: members of a cooperative enterprise
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connective
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adj 1: connecting or tending to connect; "connective remarks
between chapters"; "connective tissue in animals";
"conjunctive tissue in plants"
n 1: an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words
or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: conjunction,
conjunctive, connective, continuative]
2: an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the
connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the
amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connection, connexion,
connector, connecter, connective]
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corrective
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adj 1: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was
corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal
measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn:
corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]
2: tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a
normal condition; "corrective measures"; "corrective lenses"
n 1: a device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective,
restorative]
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defective
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adj 1: having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was
defective" [syn: defective, faulty]
2: markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence
or behavior; "defective speech"
3: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a
defective appliance" [syn: bad, defective]
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detective
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n 1: a police officer who investigates crimes [syn: detective,
investigator, tec, police detective]
2: an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information
not easily available to the public
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directive
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adj 1: showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing
direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around
him"; "the directional role of science on industrial
progress" [syn: directing, directional, directive,
guiding]
n 1: a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity; "the
boss loves to send us directives"
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effective
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adj 1: producing or capable of producing an intended result or
having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more
effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-
distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective
teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made
an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be
effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn:
effective, effectual, efficacious] [ant:
ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective]
2: able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively;
"people who will do nothing unless they get something out of
it for themselves are often highly effective
persons..."-G.B.Shaw; "effective personnel"; "an efficient
secretary"; "the efficient cause of the revolution" [syn:
effective, efficient]
3: works well as a means or remedy; "an effective reprimand"; "a
lotion that is effective in cases of prickly heat"
4: exerting force or influence; "the law is effective
immediately"; "a warranty good for two years"; "the law is
already in effect (or in force)" [syn: effective, good,
in effect(p), in force(p)]
5: existing in fact; not theoretical; real; "a decline in the
effective demand"; "confused increased equipment and
expenditure with the quantity of effective work done"
6: ready for service; "the fort was held by about 100 effective
soldiers"
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elective
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adj 1: subject to popular election; "elective official" [syn:
elective, elected] [ant: appointed, appointive]
2: not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of
study"
n 1: a course that the student can select from among
alternatives [syn: elective course, elective]
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imperfective
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n 1: aspect without regard to the beginning or completion of the
action of the verb [syn: imperfective, imperfective
aspect]
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ineffective
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adj 1: not producing an intended effect; "an ineffective
teacher"; "ineffective legislation" [syn: ineffective,
uneffective, ineffectual] [ant: effective,
effectual, efficacious]
2: lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler";
"like an unable phoenix in hot ashes" [syn: ineffective,
ineffectual, unable]
3: lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively;
inadequate; "an ineffective administration"; "inefficient
workers" [syn: ineffective, inefficient]
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infective
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adj 1: able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic
bacteria" [syn: infective, morbific, pathogenic]
2: caused by infection or capable of causing infection; "viruses
and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective
without himself showing signs of the disease" [syn:
infectious, infective]
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introspective
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adj 1: given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences
[syn: introspective, introverted, self-examining]
[ant: extrospective, extroverted]
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invective
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n 1: abusive or venomous language used to express blame or
censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn:
vituperation, invective, vitriol]
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irrespective
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adv 1: in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks; "he
carried on regardless of the difficulties" [syn:
regardless, irrespective, disregardless, no
matter, disregarding]
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objective
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adj 1: undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on
observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal";
"objective evidence" [syn: objective, nonsubjective]
[ant: subjective]
2: serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain
prepositions and used for certain other purposes; "objective
case"; "accusative endings" [syn: objective, accusative]
3: emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without
distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional
matter, or interpretation; "objective art" [syn: objective,
documentary]
4: belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events;
"objective benefits"; "an objective example"; "there is no
objective evidence of anything of the kind"
n 1: the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to
be attainable); "the sole object of her trip was to see her
children" [syn: aim, object, objective, target]
2: the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope
that is nearest the object being viewed [syn: objective,
objective lens, object lens, object glass]
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perspective
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n 1: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider
what follows from the positivist view" [syn: position,
view, perspective]
2: the appearance of things relative to one another as
determined by their distance from the viewer [syn:
perspective, linear perspective]
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prospective
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adj 1: of or concerned with or related to the future;
"prospective earnings"; "a prospective mother"; "a
prospective bride"; "the statute is solely prospective in
operation" [ant: retrospective]
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protective
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adj 1: intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind; "a
protective covering"; "the use of protective masks and
equipment"; "protective coatings"; "kept the drunken
sailor in protective custody"; "animals with protective
coloring"; "protective tariffs" [ant: unprotective]
2: showing care; "a protective mother"
3: (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful;
"protective of his reputation"
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reflective
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adj 1: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only
in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic
hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
[syn: brooding, broody, contemplative,
meditative, musing, pensive, pondering,
reflective, ruminative]
2: capable of physically reflecting light or sound; "a
reflective surface" [ant: nonreflecting, nonreflective]
3: devoted to matters of the mind; "the reflective type"
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respective
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adj 1: considered individually; "the respective club members";
"specialists in their several fields"; "the various
reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a),
various(a)]
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retrospective
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adj 1: concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective
self-justification" [ant: prospective]
n 1: an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's
life work
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selective
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adj 1: tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an
exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason
Brown
2: characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the
school was very selective in its admissions"
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subjective
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adj 1: taking place within the mind and modified by individual
bias; "a subjective judgment" [ant: nonsubjective,
objective]
2: of a mental act performed entirely within the mind; "a
cognition is an immanent act of mind" [syn: immanent,
subjective] [ant: transeunt, transient]
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unselective
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adj 1: not selective or discriminating; "unselective in her
reading habits; her choices seemed completely random"
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perfective
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n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been
completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) [syn:
perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect
tense]
2: the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action [syn:
perfective, perfective aspect]
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convective
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ejective
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inflective
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projective
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