consultive

1. 1.

   giving advice

   “an advisory memorandum”

   “his function was purely consultative”

   Synonymsadvisoryconsultativeconsultatory

   Similarinformative

Questions about consultive

What does consultive mean?

consultive means "giving advice".

How many syllables are in consultive?

consultive has 3 syllables: con-sul-tive. The stress falls on "con".

What is another word for consultive?

Close synonyms include advisory, consultative, consultatory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is consultive a common word?

consultive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.