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divisive

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) [syn: dissentious , factious ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB more ▪ But more important, and certainly more divisive , than such occasions was the endlessly controversial and emotionally potent question of precedence. ▪ Reality is more divisive for both nations. ▪ The history ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Divisive may refer to: divisive clustering , a type of hierarchical clustering divisive rhythm Divide and rule

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "having a quality of dividing," from Latin divis- , past participle stem of dividere (see divide (v.)) + -ive . Meaning "producing discord" is from 1640s. Related: Divisively ; divisiveness .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having a quality that divides or separates

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divisive \Di*vi"sive\, a. [Cf. F. divisif.] Indicating division or distribution. --Mede. Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference. It [culture] is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity. ...

Usage examples of divisive.

And, indeed, the majority of individuals in rational societies still settle in somewhere around the mythic-rational, using all the formidable powers of rationality to prop up a particular, divisive, imperialistic mythology and an aggressively fundamentalistic program of systematic intolerance.

He was religious right, Christian conservative, archconservative, far right, mean-spirited, wing nut, and divisive.

And in one of the most difficult of all historical transformations, a universal or global reasonableness began slowly to replace local and divisive mythologies, mythologies that, precisely because they could not be universally argued and supported by shared evidence, could only be supported militarily and imperialistically.

Terrorists and rebels begin training their offspring in class consciousness and divisive hatred at an early age.

No strand in the web is ever aware of the whole web, which is why empirical holism ends up divisive, dualistic, and isolationist.