circumventive

adj

Etymology

From circumvent + -ive.

  1. learned borrowing from circumveniō
  2. suffixed as circumventive — “circumvent + ive

Definitions

  1. evading or overcoming some protective measure.

    • A circumventive unauthorised user was accessing secure information.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for circumventive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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