Usually means: Adapting or modifying for improvement.
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  1. adjustive: Merriam-Webster
  2. adjustive: Collins English Dictionary
  3. adjustive: Vocabulary.com
  4. adjustive: Wordnik
  5. adjustive: Wiktionary
  6. adjustive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. adjustive: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Adjustive, adjustive: Dictionary.com
  9. Adjustive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. adjustive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. adjustive: Rhymezone
  12. Adjustive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. adjustive: FreeDictionary.org
  14. adjustive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Adjustive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adjustive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adjustive)

▸ adjective:  Tending or serving to adjust.

Similar:
adaptative, adaptive, adaptorial, adjustible, attenuative, admissive, readjustable, welladjusted, well-adjusted, apertive, more...

Opposite:
maladaptive, non-adjustive, inflexible

Types:
restorative, remedial, palliative, curative, more...

Phrases:
adjustive arcs of closure, more...

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Similar:
adaptative, adaptive, adaptorial, adjustible, attenuative, admissive, readjustable, welladjusted, well-adjusted, apertive, more...

Opposite:
maladaptive, non-adjustive, inflexible

Types:
restorative, remedial, palliative, curative, more...

Phrases:
adjustive arcs of closure, more...



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