1 (formal) acting as the cause of sth:
Smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases.
2 (grammar) a causative verb expresses a cause, for example blacken which means 'to cause to become black'
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Is causative a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, causative is tagged as adjective.
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