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promotive

promotive

7.1
That helps something grow or get better
  • adjective
  • /prəˈmoʊtɪv/
translation icon : promotor
  • The community center hosts promotive workshops that support local artists in their development.
  • promotive interaction

Examples

  • However, the study also indicated that students and groups failed to develop positive interdependence or promotive interactions.

    Academic text (2015)
  • He had the rare combination of vision, initiative, promotive ability, and organizing talent...

    Academic text (1996)
  • His promotive talent and ideas set other people to work, apparently on their own initiative.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Therefore, that is promotive of the settlement of disputes.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its own happiness.

    Blog text (22)
  • A big issue for renewable marriage contracts under California law is whether these types of agreements would be "promotive of divorce," which is forbidden for California premarital agreements.

    Blog text (28)
  • Truly, they hate everything that is promotive of freedom, creativity, imagination, and progress of humanity (unless they can figure a way out of stealing all the money), and the most important of all - they have no empathy and love in their hearts.

    Blog text (14)
  • The teachers assigned the students to groups of 3 or 4, depending on the lesson, and incorporated into the class the five elements of effective cooperative learning: positive goal interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face promotive interaction, appropriate use of social skills, and group processing (Johnson, Johnson, & Holubec, 1993).

    Academic text (1996)
  • The promotive policies of the government encouraged many new businesses to start.

  • His promotive feedback helped her gain confidence in her abilities.

Antonyms

15 3.9

Causing someone to feel less confident or hopeful about trying something

How Supportive

encouraging
73 1.9
promotive
7.1
supportive
348 2.8
helpful
689 1.0

Surface Forms

promotive positive

Morphology

promotive = promote (transparent) = promote + ive

Formed directly from the verb 'promote' with the adjectival suffix '-ive', so the meaning 'encouraging' follows clearly from the base.

Etymology

Promotive comes from the same parts as promote: pro- meaning 'forward' and the root in move, so it suggests 'helping something move forward'. That's why promotive means encouraging or supporting the development of something.