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🧮 Able to calculate 🖥️ Related to calculation 🤔 Practical and logical
computative

computative

8.2
A person who plans and decides in a practical, not emotional way
  • adjective
translation icon : calculador
  • Her computative approach to negotiations made colleagues view her as emotionally distant but effective.

Examples

  • The manager's computative style helped the team achieve their goals efficiently.

  • He is known for his computative mindset when making important business decisions.

  • Her computative approach helped solve the complex problem.

  • He is very computative when it comes to budgeting.

  • Her computative nature allowed her to find practical solutions quickly during the project.

  • In his computative style, he evaluated all outcomes before making a decision about the investment.

  • The team appreciated her computative thinking, as it led to logical and efficient strategies.

Synonyms

calculative
vscomputative
1 7.7

Planning actions carefully to gain personal advantage

focuses on practical, unemotional planning rather than seeking personal gain
planful
vscomputative
  • US
6.5

Organized and ready because you think about steps beforehand

is more about practical, often unemotional thinking rather than mere organization
calculating
vscomputative
6.4

A person who carefully plans actions to get what they want, often without caring about others

emphasizes neutral practical calculation instead of shrewd selfish planning

How Calculating

ruthless
152 4.9
computative
8.2
practical
507 2.6

Surface Forms

computative positive

Morphology

computative = compute (semi-transparent) = compute + ative

The adjective is built from 'compute', but the extension to a personality trait ('inclined to calculate') is a figurative/interpretive shift that may not be immediately obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Computative comes from compute, which means 'to calculate', and you can see the same idea in computer. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of a person who 'calculates' choices like a machine, so a computative person plans in a practical, not emotional, way.