Usually means: Creating or involving tension, strain.
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  1. tensive: Merriam-Webster
  2. tensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tensive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tensive: Wordnik
  6. tensive: Wiktionary
  7. tensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tensive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tensive: Dictionary.com
  10. Tensive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. tensive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Tensive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. tensive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. tensive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. tensive: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. -tensive: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to tension

Similar:
tensile, tensional, tonic, tensegritive, tetanic, tensiometric, tetanal, tensorial, tendinous, tendential, more...

Opposite:
relaxed, loose, slack, limp, flaccid



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Similar:
tensile, tensional, tonic, tensegritive, tetanic, tensiometric, tetanal, tensorial, tendinous, tendential, more...

Opposite:
relaxed, loose, slack, limp, flaccid



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