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[ adjective ] relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion

Examples

"digestive juices" "a digestive enzyme" "digestive ferment"

Used in print

(Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)

The duration of the digestive process varies , the pathologist says , but the empty stomach and the findings in the upper gastrointestinal tract indicate that Mrs._Meeker died several hours after her seven o_'_clock dinner .

Related terms

digestion

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Rhymes with

suggestive congestive subjective objective festive restive receptive contraceptive preemptive attentive protective inattentive directive unreceptive deceptive perceptive receptive redemptive affective directive collective selective connective detective protective tentative oversensitive negative sensitive preventive hypersensitive assertive relative insensitive sedative narrative repetitive rep representative legislative imperative noncompetitive disincentive incentive uncompetitive competitive comparative adjective effective corrective elective directive exhaustive ineffective redemptive directive defective respective vegetative administrative consecutive investigative executive preventive perspective introspective reflective invective infective irrespective respective prognosticative retrospective decorative prospective initiative furtive native fugitive nonnative assaultive adaptive unrepresentative imitative elucidative accommodative argumentative representative stimulative rehabilitative regulative preventative addictive manipulative meditative facultative inventive qualitative tentative commemorative authoritative innovative accumulative productive illustrative fixative reproductive nonproductive substantive demonstrative nutritive unproductive uncooperative operative interpretive inoperative adoptive appreciative superlative preservative alternative appointive alliterative creative neoconservative conservative ultraconservative iterative affirmative abortive supportive plaintive photoconductive conductive laxative captive expletive deliberative counterproductive communicative contemplative lucrative secretive probative locomotive additive combative appreciative automotive eruptive descriptive unimaginative imaginative figurative effective diminutive palliative speculative cumulative intuitive active attractive positive unattractive destructive vituperative deliberative collaborative obstructive refractive cooperative constructive reconstructive narrative recuperative talkative causative instructive restrictive octave prerogative collaborative evocative predictive cognitive corroborative provocative eruptive corruptive disruptive indicative generative remunerative distributive acquisitive degenerative quantitative innovative inquisitive commemorative

Phonetic and Homophones

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Similar Spelling

digest digestible digester digested digestion disgust disaster disesteem diseased die-cast disgusting disgusted

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