Word Meanings - IMPEDITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to IMPEDITIVE)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• 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.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• IMPEDE
  To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• IMPEDIMENT
  That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction;
• IMPEDITE
  Hindered; obstructed. Jer. Taylor.
• IMPEDIMENTAL
  Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• MOTION
  1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat. 2. To propose; to move. I want friends to motion such a matter. Burton.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.