Noncausative

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not causative.; Not a cause. not-comparable

    "The subsequent investigation found the earlier inadequate maintenance to be inappropriate but noncausative."

  2. 2
    Not causative.; Not involving, or affected by, causality. not-comparable

    "Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not causative wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
noncausaluncausative

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"The subsequent investigation found the earlier inadequate maintenance to be inappropriate but noncausative."

Etymology

From non- + causative.

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