contributive

Examples

• All

• These things, positive, constructive, contributive things, not this constant yelling at people who've already said yes.

• They generally have a behavior that is much harder to describe in in contributive terms than then everything else we've seen so far.

• 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.

• Her insights were contributive to the development of the new marketing strategy, helping the brand reach more customers.

Synonyms

C

causal

vscontributive

41 6.8

Describing something that makes another thing happen

is about partial help and shared responsibility rather than being the actual cause

C

conducive

vscontributive

37 6.3

To help something happen or be more likely

is about partial responsibility rather than merely making outcomes more likely

C

contributory

vscontributive

6 6.3

Helping to cause something or being partly responsible for it

is the same in meaning but appears as a different word form

C

causative

vscontributive

6 7.2

That makes something happen

is focused on helping bring results rather than acting as the direct cause

O

operant

vscontributive

1 8.1

Having influence that causes a result

is more about shared partial responsibility rather than being the main active influence

C

contributing

vscontributive

3.6

Helping to cause something by adding to it

is the same in meaning but differs in grammatical or word form

Antonyms

D

detrimental

49 6.3

Causing harm to people, things, or the environment

U

unhelpful

17 3.0

Not giving useful help or advice

How Responsible

primary

∞ 2.5

decisive

74 4.0

influential

189 4.6

contributive

6.5

peripheral

27 6.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology