combinative
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- adjective
- /kəmˈbɪnətɪv/
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combinativo
- Her combinative skills in cooking blended various cuisines to create a unique dish.
Which carries us to our next segment, combinative thinking.
- Which carries us to our next segment, combinative thinking.
- An act of combinative genius from the mind of Master Mozart.
- Diverse interests provide perspective and, as we shall see later in this session, allow for new combinative ideas to occur.
Examples
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So the new spirituality wants to heal flesh and spirit and wants to heal them together, convinced of an abiding correspondence between body and soul; convinced as well of a secret connection between all things; and following the logic of the connection, convinced that a combinative mingling of religious beliefs and cultural practices is the highway to health and spirit.
Academic text (2000) -
The importance of social structure in the equation highlights a "combinative" effect.
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Diverse interests provide perspective and, as we shall see later in this session, allow for new combinative ideas to occur.
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An act of combinative genius from the mind of Master Mozart.
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It is, rather, combinative as the natural result of its vision and commitments.
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The new spirituality full-blown among us in the early twenty-first century is less shy, however, about its combinative tropes and figures.
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For all the hostility toward organized sects and churches, the spirit messages were ambiguous—and decidedly combinative.
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The artist's combinative approach to different styles resulted in a stunning masterpiece.
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The study emphasized a combinative method, merging both theory and practical application for better results.
Synonyms
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9.3
About the different ways things can be arranged, like the order of items, often in math
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Having parts from more than one style
Relating to joining different parts to work together
Relating to putting things together in different ways
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word combinative comes from the Latin verb combinare, built from com- meaning 'together' and a root meaning 'join'. Think of the common word combine, which means 'to put things together', so combinative describes something that joins or mixes parts together.