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Tractive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Serving to pull or draw; exerting traction.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Pertaining to traction.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Serving to draw; pulling; attracting.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Tractional; drawing; needed or used in drawing.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. exerting traction and serving to pull

Word Usage

"The third malfunction came the following day, when hundreds of passengers on a train heading for Beijing were asked to change train in the middle of their journey due a problem with tractive transformers on the train."

Form

tractiveness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pulling attracting

Same Context

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