Word Meanings - DISTRACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Causing perplexity; distracting. "Distractive thoughts." Bp. Hall.
Related words: (words related to DISTRACTIVE)
- 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.