Word Meanings - OPERATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery. (more info) 1. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. It holds in all

Additional info about word: OPERATIVE

Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery. (more info) 1. Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. It holds in all operative principles. South. 2. Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OPERATIVE)

• Effective
• Powerful
• conducive
• operative
• cogent
• telling
• able
• potent
• talented
• efficacious
• efficient
• serviceable
• effectual
• Hand
• Laborer
• workman
• artisan
• agency
• influence
• index
• Workman
• workingman
• employe
• breadwinner
• hand
• Prevailing
• Controlling
• ruling
• influential
• predominant
• prevalent
• rife
• ascendant
• most general
• most common
• Valid
• Strong
• powerful
• weighty
• sound
• substantial
• available
• sufficient
• conclusive

Related words: (words related to OPERATIVE)

• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• PREVALENTLY
  In a prevalent manner. Prior.
• PREDOMINANT
  Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• TELLABLE
  Capable of being told.
• TELLURIAN
  Of or pertaining to the earth. De Quincey.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• PATELLULA
  A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• OVERRULING
  Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• FERULIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid.
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• CHONDRULE
  A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• OMNIPOTENT
  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.