causative

About 2.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Acting as a cause.
2. adjective Involving, or affected by, causality.

   Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.

3. adjective Expressing a cause or causation.

   The ablative is a causative case.

4. noun An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

Similar words

causal inductive inducive conducive contributive contributory motive responsible motivative motivating

Often followed by

agent factors factor organism agents organisms of role and

Word family

causatively causatives