Synonyms for additive
ˈæd ɪ tɪvad·di·tive

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1. additivenoun

   Antonyms:
   subtractive

2. additiveadjective

   Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.

   Oil may be used as an additive in gasoline to improve the lubrication of a small engine.

   Antonyms:
   subtractive

3. additiveadjective

   Matrix multiplication is additive in that .

   Antonyms:
   subtractive

4. additiveadjective

   It is natural to look at a finite cyclic group as an additive group.

   Antonyms:
   subtractive

5. additiveadjective

   Antonyms:
   subtractive

6. additiveadjective

   Antonyms:
   subtractive

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1. additiveadjective

   something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine

   Antonyms:
   reductive, subtractive, ablative

2. linear, additiveadjective

   designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree

   Synonyms:
   analogue, elongate, analog, linear, running(a), one-dimensional

   Antonyms:
   ablative, subtractive, reductive

3. additiveadjective

   characterized or produced by addition

   "an additive process"

   Synonyms:
   linear

   Antonyms:
   ablative, subtractive, reductive

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1. additiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   to be added

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1. List of paraphrases for "additive":

   addendum, additives, addenda, ingred, cumulative, additivity

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How to use additive in a sentence?

1. Tony Roth:

   [Oil] this low should be very additive to economic activity, not just with gas prices but across the economy, early holiday shopping numbers should come in pretty strong.

2. Christian Kemp-Griffin:

   There are all kinds of potential applications that Curran can be used for, it can go into things like paint and coatings, it can go into concrete, cosmetics. It can even be used for drilling fluids, as an additive to go into your food, and go into composites. So you can imagine one day airplane wings made from Curran.

3. Chairman Robert Coury:

   I will absolutely continue to look at M&A stuff but not as a requirement - as something that could be additive as part of our longer term strategy.

4. Mike Pompeo:

   I went to the president and made clear to him that Inspector General Linick wasn't performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to, that was additive for the State Department, very consistent with what the statute says he's supposed to be doing.

5. Glen Brooks:

   It has an additive benefit that shouldn't be discounted or looked down upon because an academic study says this won't reduce crime by' x' percentage points, but we know for an absolute fact that guns are used in suicides, in homicides, and of course shootings. Those things, taking that weapon out of a place it's unwanted and unused, giving people a responsible method for disposing of it, have a benefit.