causative Definition
causa·tive (kôz′ə tiv′)
adjective
- producing an effect; causing
- Gram. designating a word or form that expresses causation “fell” is a causative verb meaning “to cause to fall”
Etymology: ME & OFr causatif < L causativus
noun
a causative word or form
causative Related Forms
caus′a·tive′ly adverb
causative Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- loss: However, again this slip was not causative of any loss.
- accident: His failure to do so was negligent, and causative of the accident.
- death: In short the inquiry must focus on matters directly causative of the death and must indeed be confined to these matters alone " .
- damage: Why should that have been causative of any damage when the title " problem " never proved to be a problem in fact?
Modifies a noun
- organism: A causative organism was not found in either outbreak.
- agent: The causative agent is thought to an abnormal form of a protein called a ' prion ' .
- mutation: DNA sequencing of the most relevant candidate genes will then be carried out in order to identify the causative mutation.
- factor: The HLA genes are not likely to be main causative factor.
- gene: For example, discovery of the causative gene for a disease often leads to a DNA test to detect disease gene carriers.
- bacterium: Unfortunately, even tho elimination of the symptoms is often possible with appropriate therapy, eradication of the causative bacteria is not.
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