Antonyms for operative
ˈɒp ər ə tɪv, ˈɒp rə tɪv, ˈɒp əˌreɪ tɪvop·er·a·tive

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1. operative

   Artist, artificer and artisan are all from the root of art, but artist holds to the esthetic sense, while artificer and artisan follow the mechanical or industrial sense of the word (see ART under SCIENCE). Artist thus comes only into accidental association with the other words of this group, not being a synonym of any one of them and having practically no synonym of its own. The work of the artist is creative; that of the artisan mechanical. The man who paints a beautiful picture is an artist; the man who makes pin-heads all day is an artisan. The artificer is between the two, putting more thought, intelligence, and taste into his work than the artisan, but less of the idealizing, creative power than the artist. The sculptor, shaping his model in clay, is artificer, as well as artist; patient artisans, working simply by rule and scale, chisel and polish the stone. The man who constructs anything by mere routine and rule is a mechanic. The man whose work involves thought, skill, and constructive power is an artificer. The hod-carrier is a laborer; the bricklayer is a mechanic; the master mason is an artificer. Those who operate machinery nearly self-acting are operatives.

   Synonyms:
   artificer, artisan, artist, mechanic, workman

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1. operative

   Antonyms:
   inefficacious, inoperative

   Synonyms:
   active, efficacious, serviceable, binding

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1. • Agent

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1. secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operativenoun

   a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

   Antonyms:
   down, insignificant, unimportant, defunct, malfunctioning, dead, nonfunctional, inoperative

   Synonyms:
   intelligence officer, private detective, sherlock, private eye, private investigator, intelligence agent, shamus, secret agent

2. private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlockadjective

   someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

   Antonyms:
   malfunctioning, defunct, nonfunctional, inoperative, unimportant, down, insignificant, dead

   Synonyms:
   private investigator, private detective, intelligence officer, sherlock, private eye, intelligence agent, shamus, protease inhibitor, secret agent, principal investigator

3. operativeadjective

   being in force or having or exerting force

   "operative regulations"; "the major tendencies operative in the American political system"

   Antonyms:
   dead, unimportant, malfunctioning, insignificant, nonfunctional, defunct, inoperative, down

   Synonyms:
   functional, running(a), working(a), surgical

4. surgical, operativeadjective

   relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine

   "a surgical appendix"; "a surgical procedure"; "operative dentistry"

   Antonyms:
   inoperative, dead, malfunctioning, unimportant, defunct, nonfunctional, down, insignificant

   Synonyms:
   functional, running(a), working(a), surgical

5. operativeadjective

   effective; producing a desired effect

   "the operative word"

   Antonyms:
   nonfunctional, down, insignificant, defunct, malfunctioning, dead, unimportant, inoperative

   Synonyms:
   functional, running(a), working(a), surgical

6. running(a), operative, functional, working(a)adjective

   (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

   "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, defunct, down, insignificant, dead, malfunctioning, nonfunctional, inoperative

How to use operative in a sentence?

1. Paul Fisher:

   Insurers will need to deal with the PRA in an open, co-operative and constructive manner, to allow us to understand whether the business model is sustainable and to identify key vulnerabilities.

2. Abid Naseer:

   Abid is innocent, he is not a terrorist. He is not an al-Qaida operative.

3. Michael Raymond-James:

   He was so much more involved than that. He was a major operative and a huge thorn in the British crown, sons of Liberty.

4. Donald Trump:

   There are a number of links between the real estate tycoon’s political operation and the Make America Great Again PAC. Mike Ciletti, a Colorado-based operative who told Politico in August that Mike Ciletti is a consultant for the super PAC … The Donald Trump campaign has paid Ciletti’s printing firm since April, with the most recently reported payment on Sept. 18 … In one of several interviews with The Washington Post, Corey Lewandowski Fox News First denied knowing Mike Ciletti or anyone connected to the super PAC. ‘ I don’t know Mike Ciletti, ’ Corey Lewandowski said. Two days later, when confronted with the campaign’s payments to Ciletti’s firm, Corey Lewandowski acknowledged Mike Ciletti was familiar with Ciletti. ‘ I know a lot of people, ’ Mike Ciletti said. ‘ I know of Mike Ciletti. ’ After being pressed for more details, Mike Ciletti hung up.

5. Commissioner Sunila Thomas George:

   In those circumstances, places of worship could be seen as open to the public, the operative word is ‘ could. ’.

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