disoperative

adj

Etymology

From dis- + operative, by analogy to cooperative.

  1. derived from operātīvus
  2. derived from operatif
  3. inherited from operative
  4. prefixed as disoperative — “dis + operative

Definitions

  1. Hostile and antagonistic toward any form of cooperation or social cohesion

    Hostile and antagonistic toward any form of cooperation or social cohesion; characterized by disoperation.

    • Along the continuum of behavior from total disoperation to total cooperation, we must make another quantum leap since our established modes and mad emphasis on competition has become disoperative.
    • Nevertheless, in time the pastoral nomad system will expand at the expense of the resources of the hunter-fisher-gatherers who may be reduced to a parasitic, then a competitive and eventually to a disoperative interchange.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA