divisive
adjUK /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/ · US /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin dīvīsīvus.
1
Having a quality that divides or separates.
- Rather than fostering unity, he becomes divisive.
- [W]hat a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! [...] all is grown acrid, divisive, threatening dissolution; [...]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 6, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 66:
- Antonyms
- combinative, agglomerative
- Derived terms
- divisively, divisiveness, indivisive, subdivisive, undivisive