(disapproving) causing people to be split into groups that disagree with or oppose each other:
He believes that unemployment is socially divisive.
seealsoDIVIDE
divisively adverb
divisiveness noun [U]:
The minister disliked the divisiveness of rich and poor children going to different schools.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for divisive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is divisive a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, divisive is tagged as adjective.
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