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English
Etymology
From dīvīs-, past-participle stem of Latin dīvidere (“to divide”) + -ive.
Pronunciation
Adjective
divisive (comparative more divisive, superlative most divisive)
- Having a quality that divides or separates.
- Synonym: disunifying
- Antonym: unifying
Rather than fostering unity, he becomes divisive.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 6, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 66:[W]hat a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! [...] all is grown acrid, divisive, threatening dissolution; [...]
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Translations
having a quality that divides or separates
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