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Synonyms for (adjective) causative

Synonyms: causative Definition: producing an effect Usage: poverty as a causative factor in crime

Hypernyms: abortifacient Definition: causing abortion

Hypernyms: activating, actuating Definition: causing motion or action or change

Hypernyms: anorectic, anorexigenic Definition: causing loss of appetite Usage: an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug

Hypernyms: causal Definition: involving or constituting a cause; causing Usage: a causal relationship between scarcity and higher prices

Hypernyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary Definition: tending to bring about; being partly responsible for Usage: working conditions are not conducive to productivity; the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city; a contributory factor

Hypernyms: errhine Definition: causing nasal discharge

Hypernyms: fast Definition: (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time Usage: a fast lens

Hypernyms: inducive, inductive Definition: inducing or influencing; leading on Usage: inductive to the sin of Eve- John Milton

Hypernyms: motivating, motivative, motive Definition: impelling to action Usage: it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function- Arthur Pap; motive pleas; motivating arguments

Hypernyms: motive, motor Definition: causing or able to cause motion Usage: a motive force; motive power; motor energy

Hypernyms: precipitating Definition: bringing on suddenly or abruptly Usage: the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce

Hypernyms: responsible, responsible for Definition: being the agent or cause Usage: determined who was the responsible party; termites were responsible for the damage

Hypernyms: sternutative, sternutatory Definition: causing sneezing Usage: pepper is a sternutatory substance