| a. | 1. | Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. | ||||||
| 2. | (Logic) Assigning the species of a general term. | |||||||
| 3. | (Gram.) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively;
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| n. | 1. | (Gram.) A distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral. | ||||||
| Adj. | 1. | distributive - serving to distribute or allot or disperse Antonyms: collective - forming a whole or aggregate |
| 2. | distributive - tending to disperse Synonyms: dispersive |
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