The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distractive \Dis*trac"tive\, a.
Causing perplexity; distracting. ``Distractive thoughts.''
--Bp. Hall.
Wiktionary
a. causing distraction
Usage examples of "distractive".
Cloths and covers, even separated and strung above the ground, can provide protective concealments, some serving to hide what is actually beneath them, particularly from high altitudes, others serving as patterns distractive to archers, patterns which make it difficult to target the objects they shelter, both with respect to their movements and locations.
This form of reticulation is calculated to ave a confusing and distractive effect on wiftly moving, airborne archers.
An old teaching of those who trained young soldiers, the art of covering fire and a distractive barrage based on the principle that, while a man was protecting himself, he couldn't fire back.