a. | 1. | Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; | |||
2. | Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. | ||||
3. | (Gram.) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; | ||||
4. | Tending to collect; forming a collection. | ||||
5. | Having plurality of origin or authority;
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n. | 1. | (Gram.) A collective noun or name. |
Noun | 1. | collective - members of a cooperative enterprise |
Adj. | 1. | collective - done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate good" Synonyms: corporate |
2. | collective - forming a whole or aggregate Antonyms: distributive - serving to distribute or allot or disperse | |
3. | collective - set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government; "collective farms" |