Disoperative
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Hostile and antagonistic toward any form of cooperation or social cohesion; characterized by disoperation.
"The building-up of a particular community is primarily a matter of cooperation in effecting favorable reactions, but after a longer or shorter period of occupation the reactions become disoperative, and the community is gradually displaced through the competition of one better adapted to the changing habitat."
Example
More examples"The building-up of a particular community is primarily a matter of cooperation in effecting favorable reactions, but after a longer or shorter period of occupation the reactions become disoperative, and the community is gradually displaced through the competition of one better adapted to the changing habitat."
Etymology
From dis- + operative, by analogy to cooperative.
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