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dissective

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dis-sec-tive
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to dissect.

adj

Referring to a number of individual or separate things rather than a mass (e.g. snowflakes rather than snow).

Etymology

From dissect + -ive.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more dissective (comparative) most dissective (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

dissectability dissectable dissection

Questions

What does dissective mean?
Tending to dissect.
Where does dissective come from?
From dissect + -ive.

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