| a. | 1. | Causing, or being to cause, separation. |
| Adj. | 1. | separative - used of an accent in Hebrew orthography; indicates that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it |
| 2. | separative - serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative" Synonyms: partitive | |
| 3. | separative - (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group; "whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative" |