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Definition of Detractive
1. Adjective. Causing to decrease in importance or value. "Detractive influences on the volume of investment"
Definition of Detractive
1. a. Tending to detract or draw.
Definition of Detractive
1. Adjective. Tending to detract or draw. ¹
2. Adjective. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detractive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detractive
Literary usage of Detractive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dizionario delle lingue italiana ed ingleseby Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1807)
"... slandering, detractive, abusive, apt tu speak ill of others. ... adj.
slanderous, detractive, abusive.^rf/л male- difo, a slanderer, an ill-tongue. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"... a long struggle of more than thirty years widi the powerful Clovis and his
bold Franks. These incongruities teach us how to estimate the detractive ..."
3. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"... self-combustion, ability to ionn cokes, extn. with solvents, detractive
distn., distn. at low pressure, inflammability, binding of N and origin of coal. ..."
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