separative

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Serving to separate.

   • […] that much more full and eminent Experiment of the Separative Virtue of extream Cold, that was made, against their Wills, by the […] Dutch men that Winter’d in Nova Zembla;
   • Jews christianizing—Christians judaizing—puzzle me. I like fish or flesh. A moderate Jew is a more confounding piece of anomaly than a wet Quaker. The spirit of the synagogue is essentially separative.
2. 2

   Tending to keep oneself separate from others.

   • Pye had never forgotten or forgiven the ingenious fraud. It had taught him secretiveness, made him even more lone and separative. He had withdrawn from the world of men, academic and otherwise.
   • I was working hard, and living a rather separative existence, without realizing at the time what this aloofness meant for me.
3. 3

   Something that serves to separate.

   • He […] independently identified the oblique wedge as a separative of words [in cuneiform writing] […]

The neighborhood

• neighborseparational