Usually means: Causing disagreement or hostility between.
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  1. divisive: Merriam-Webster
  2. divisive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. divisive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. divisive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. divisive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Divisive, divisive: Wordnik
  7. divisive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. divisive: Wiktionary
  9. divisive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. divisive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. divisive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Divisive, divisive: Dictionary.com
  13. divisive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Divisive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Divisive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. divisive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. divisive: Rhymezone
  18. Divisive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. divisive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. divisive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. divisive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. divisive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. divisive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. divisive: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having a quality that divides or separates.

Similar:
dissentious, discordant, factious, discerptive, dividable, dividant, disjunctive, dichotomous, dividuous, discretive, more...

Opposite:
unifying, unitive, unitively

Types:
polarizing, controversial, debatable, disputable, disputed, open to debate, more...

Phrases:
divisive policy, divisive speech, politically divisive, opposite of divisive, more...

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Similar:
dissentious, discordant, factious, discerptive, dividable, dividant, disjunctive, dichotomous, dividuous, discretive, more...

Opposite:
unifying, unitive, unitively

Types:
polarizing, controversial, debatable, disputable, disputed, open to debate, more...

Phrases:
divisive policy, divisive speech, politically divisive, opposite of divisive, more...

Colors:
    red,     black,     white,     gray,     orange, more...



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