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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /dɪˈvaɪsɪv/, [dɪˈvaɪsɪv], [dɪˈvʌɪsɪv], /dɪˈvɪsɪv/
• 韻: -aɪsɪv

形容詞

divisive (comparative more divisive, superlative most divisive)

1. Having a quality that divides or separates.

   Synonyms: disunifying, polarizing

   Antonym: unifying

   Rather than fostering unity, he becomes divisive.

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 6, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 66:

     [W]hat a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! [...] all is grown acrid, divisive, threatening dissolution; [...]

反意語

• combinative
• agglomerative

派生語