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adj. Functioning as an agent or cause.

adj. Expressing causation. Used of a verb or verbal affix.

adj. Acting as a cause.

n. An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

adj. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.

adj. Expressing a cause or reason; causal.

n. A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

Effective as a cause or an agent; causal.

In grammar, expressing causation: as, a causative verb: for example, to fell (cause to fall), to set (cause to sit); the causative conjugation of a verb, such as is common in Sanskrit. Also sometimes applied to the case by which cause is expressed, as the Latin ablative.

n. A form of verb or noun having causative value.

adj. producing an effect

"But atmospheric pollution has not normally been identified as a causative factor in diabetes and obesity, two of the nation's major health scourges -- that is until recently."

sternutative    abortifacient    actuating    inducive    contributing    motor    anorectic    motivating    responsible for    errhine   

causing    causal    inductive    inducive    productive    creative    generative   

dispositive    positive   

disease-producing    pathogenic    single-cell    etiologic    spore-forming    tumorigenic    putrefactive    single-celled    active-intransitive    symbiotic