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say it: dahy-JEH-stiv
digestive is a noun and adjective meaning "any substance that promotes digestion". It carries 2 recorded senses.
any substance that promotes digestion
relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion
“digestive juices”
“a digestive enzyme”
“digestive ferment”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for digestive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.