divisive
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 8
/dɪˈvaɪsɪv/
(UK)
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/dɪˈvaɪsɪv/ (UK) · /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/ (US) · [dɪˈvaɪsɪv] (US) · [dɪˈvʌɪsɪv] (US) · /dɪˈvɪsɪv/ (US)
Definition of divisive
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Having a quality that divides or separates.
“Rather than fostering unity, he becomes divisive.”
“[W]hat a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! [...] all is grown acrid, divisive, threatening dissolution; [...]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dīvīsīvus.
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