Deletive
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Tending to delete or destroy. uncommon
"lexical deletive rules"
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"[T]he obtuſer end [of a style] vvas made more deletive, apt to put out, and obliterate, vvhen they vvould Stylum vertere [turn the style], vvhich our Burniſher (another Tool us'd by Chalcographers) and Poliſher performes."
Etymology
from delete + -ive.