contributive
- adjective
- /kənˈtrɪb.jʊ.tɪv/
- The contributive actions of volunteers made a significant difference in the community after the disaster.
Examples
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These things, positive, constructive, contributive things, not this constant yelling at people who've already said yes.
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They generally have a behavior that is much harder to describe in in contributive terms than then everything else we've seen so far.
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The private sector is invited to allocate some sponsorship to research on VTE through direct finance or awards and incentives paid to researchers who conduct contributive developmental studies.
Academic text (2011) -
In naturalistic fiction, this object is strictly functional and referential, contributive to the materialization of setting or the depiction of characters, and located, in most cases, in their positions of conventional material utility.
Academic text (2007) -
Many of these are poems of sorrow and love, but many, especially to their children, are poems in which the contributive voice—that voice that asserts its place in civic discourse—emerges.
Academic text (2004) -
Although we understand many aspects of carbon assimilation in diatoms, the direct responses and contributive flow of inorganic carbon to lipid accumulation are not known for many eukaryotic photoautotrophs under different growth conditions.
Blog text (18) -
Working in a team allows each member's efforts to be contributive to the overall success of the project.
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Her insights were contributive to the development of the new marketing strategy, helping the brand reach more customers.
Synonyms
Describing something that makes another thing happen
To help something happen or be more likely
Helping to cause something or being partly responsible for it
That makes something happen
Having influence that causes a result
Helping to cause something by adding to it
Antonyms
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
contributive = contribute (transparent) = contribute + ive
The adjective is a straightforward derivation from the verb 'contribute' with the adjectival suffix '-ive' meaning 'tending to' or 'related to'.
Etymology
The word contributive comes from con- ('together') and the same root as tribute, which means 'to give'. So something contributive gives to a result or helps make it happen.