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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024caus•a•tive (kô′zə tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - acting as a cause;
producing (often fol. by of ):a causative agency; an event causative of war. - Grammarnoting causation. The causative form of to fall is to fell. Gothic -jan is a causative suffix in fulljan "to cause to be full;
to fill.''
n. - Grammara word, esp. a verb, noting causation, as made in He made me eat the apple.
- Latin causātīvus, equivalent. to causāt(us) caused (see causation) + -īvus -ive
- late Middle English 1375–1425
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