Retardative

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. That retards
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Tending, or serving, to retard.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending to retard; retarding.
  • Serving to express retardation: applied to certain verb-forms in some agglutinative languages. Compare the extract under accelerative, 2.
  • Word Usage
    "_The transfer of energy into any animate material system is attended by effects conducive to the transfer, and retardative of dissipation."