partitive

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective That divides something into parts.

   partitive tendencies in education

2. adjective Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.

   The word some is used in partitive constructions.

3. noun A partitive word, phrase or case.

Similar words

separative disjunctive genitive genitives partite part tripartible bipartient semidivided multipartite

Often followed by

genitive case and article construction constructions division or is

Word family

partitively