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promotive

promotive

1 7.1
That helps something grow or get better
  • adjective
  • /prəˈmoʊtɪv/
: 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

29 3.9

Causing someone to feel less confident or hopeful about trying something

How Supportive

encouraging
130 1.9
promotive
1 7.1
supportive
335 2.8
helpful
722 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.