Meanings
adjectivedisturbative (comparative more disturbative, superlative most disturbative)
comparative more disturbative · superlative most disturbative
- archaicOf, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing.
It is not to say that all crowds are disturbative, or woe betide fashionable assemblies; but the element of disturbance is always at hand wherever a crowd is collected.
1859, Dudley Costello, “Gurney; or, Two Fortunes”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 46, page 102
Origin
From disturbāt-, past participial stem of disturbō, + -ive. By surface analysis, disturb + -ative.
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