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Definition of Calculative
1. Adjective. Used of persons. "The most calculating and selfish men in the community"
Similar to: Hard
Derivative terms: Calculate, Shrewdness
Definition of Calculative
1. a. Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation.
Definition of Calculative
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or involving calculation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calculative
Literary usage of Calculative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle: Consisting of a Translation of the by Aristotle, Walter Mooney Hatch, William Archibald Spooner (1879)
"Since then knowledge is twofold, necessary and contingent, necessary knowledge
may be called scientific knowledge, and contingent knowledge calculative or ..."
2. Cranio-muscular Origins of Brain and Mind by Philip Henry Erbés (1904)
"A good calculative faculty ever does its work by shortcuts, like those we are
familiar with in simpler numbers. When once the area is stocked with facts, ..."
3. Music (1899)
"Science appeals to the calculative and logical powers; but art, ... So we may say.
that art embodying both the calculative and the imaginative faculties is ..."
4. The Making of Character: Some Educational Aspects of Ethics by John MacCunn (1908)
"As we have already seen, it is not so purely calculative as even the working out
of a practical problem in the arts. For at every suggested step there ..."
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