corruptive

1. 1.

   tending to corrupt or pervert

   Synonymsperversivepestiferous

   Similarevil

Questions about corruptive

What does corruptive mean?

corruptive means "tending to corrupt or pervert".

How many syllables are in corruptive?

corruptive has 3 syllables: cor-rup-tive. The stress falls on "rup". In IPA it is /kɚˈʌptɪv/.

What is another word for corruptive?

Close synonyms include perversive, pestiferous. 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 corruptive a common word?

corruptive 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.