The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contractive
Contractive \Con*tract"ive\, a. Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
Wiktionary
contractive
a. Able to contract; contractile
Usage examples of "contractive".
And the forms of the cumuli themselves tell us in manifold metamorphoses of a state of equilibrium between expansive and contractive tendencies within the atmosphere.