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Word Meanings - DISTRACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing perplexity; distracting. "Distractive thoughts." Bp. Hall.

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  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • CAUSATIVE
    1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • DISTRACTION
    1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
  • DISTRACTED
    Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
  • CAUSATOR
    One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
  • CAUSTICILY
    1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
  • CAUSAL
    A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
  • CAUSATIVELY
    In a causative manner.
  • CAUSTICALLY
    In a caustic manner.
  • CAUSATIONIST
    One who believes in the law of universal causation.
  • DISTRACTFUL
    Distracting. Heywood.
  • DISTRACTIOUS
    Distractive.
  • DISTRACTEDNESS
    A state of being distracted; distraction. Bp. Hall.
  • CAUSIDICAL
    Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
  • CAUSERIE
    Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
  • CAUSER
    One who or that which causes.
  • DISTRACTEDLY
    Disjointedly; madly. Shak.
  • CAUSELESS
    1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
  • CAUSATION
    The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is
  • ANTICAUSODIC
    See ANTICAUSOTIC
  • ENCAUSTIC
    Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
  • UNCAUSED
    Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
  • EREMACAUSIS
    A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
  • CATACAUSTIC
    Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.
  • GALVANOCAUSTIC
    Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.

 

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