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detractive is an adjective meaning "causing to decrease in importance or value". It carries one recorded sense.
causing to decrease in importance or value
“detractive influences on the volume of investment”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for detractive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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