Definition of Disintegrative

1. Adjective. Tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts.

Similar to: Clastic, Decompositional
Derivative terms: Disintegrate, Disintegrate
Antonyms: Integrative

Definition of Disintegrative

1. Adjective. Losing cohesion or unity. ¹

2. Adjective. (psychology) Having disorganized psychological and behavioral processes. ¹

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Definition of Disintegrative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disintegrative

disinsures
disinsuring
disintegrable
disintegrant
disintegrants
disintegrate
disintegrated
disintegrates
disintegrating
disintegrating link
disintegrating links
disintegration
disintegration constant
disintegration energy
disintegrations
disintegrative
disintegrator
disintegrators
disintegrin
disintegrins
disinter
disintered
disinteressment
disinterest
disinterested
disinterestedly
disinterestedness
disinteresting
disinterests
disintering

Literary usage of Disintegrative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"... an adjustment was brought about and a cure resulted from an analysis that was more largely diagnostic than disintegrative. None of her complexes were ..."

2. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"When all are destroyed at once, as by strong chemicals or by heat, the customary disintegrative changes do not take place. If, however, not all the enzymes ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"It is manifest that where disintegrative changes of this kind are occurring under the influence of the serum, opsonic effects will be more or less thrust ..."

4. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"As will be seen in the figures the struggles of the individual zooid eventually free its sister and cousin zooids, but this process of disintegrative ..."

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