Word Meanings - CAUSATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAUSATIVE)

• Fertile
• Rich
• luxuriant
• teeming
• productive
• exuberant
• causative
• conducive
• pregnant
• fraught
• prolific
• fecund
• fruitful
• ingenious
• inventive
• Fruitful
• Productive
• effectual
• useful
• successful
• fertile
• abundant
• plenteous
• plentiful
• efficient

Related words: (words related to CAUSATIVE)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• INGENIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• FRAUGHTAGE
  Freight; loading; cargo. Shak.
• PROLIFICATION
  Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ. (more info) 1. The generation of young.
• FECUNDIFY
  To make fruitful; to fecundate. Johnson.
• EXUBERANT
  Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage. "Exuberant spring." Thomson. -- Ex*u"ber*ant*ly, adv. (more info)
• CONDUCIVENESS
  The quality of conducing.
• TEEMER
  One who teems, or brings forth.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• ABUNDANTLY
  In a sufficient degree; fully; amply; plentifully; in large measure.
• PREGNANTLY
  In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
• ABUNDANT
  Fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; -- followed by in, rarely by with. "Abundant in goodness and truth." Exod. xxxiv. 6. Abundant number , a number, the sum of whose aliquot parts exceeds the number itself. Thus, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, the
• FECUND
  Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.
• SUCCESSFUL
  Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome,
• LUXURIANTLY
  In a luxuriant manner.
• TEEMING
  Prolific; productive. Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.
• INGENIOUS
  1. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic. A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war. Hakluyt. Thou,
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• STEEM
  See SPENSER
• AUTOFECUNDATION
  Self-impregnation. Darwin.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• UNSUCCESSFUL
  Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
• ESTEEMABLE
  Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
• INFERTILELY
  In an infertile manner.
• INFECUND
  Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile. Evelyn.