Definition of Counteractive

1. Adjective. Opposing or neutralizing or mitigating an effect by contrary action.

Similar to: Active
Derivative terms: Counteract

Definition of Counteractive

1. a. Tending to counteract.

2. n. One who, or that which, counteracts.

Definition of Counteractive

1. Adjective. That counteracts ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Counteractive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counteractive

counter conditioning
counter culture
counter intelligence
counter strategy
counter tube
counteraccusation
counteraccusations
counteract
counteracted
counteracter
counteracters
counteracting
counteractingly
counteraction
counteractions
counteractive (current term)
counteractively
counteractor
counteractors
counteracts
counteradvertising
counteragent
counteragents
counteraggression
counteraggressions
counterair
counteranion
counteranions
counterappeal
counterappeals

Literary usage of Counteractive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handbook of Christian Ethics by John Clark Murray (1908)
"Such dangers may lie, not only in dispositions that are positively hurtful by their abnormal force, but also in the lack of counteractive dispositions. ..."

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