distributive

1. 1.

   serving to distribute or allot or disperse

   Antonymscollective

   Similarallocablediffusingimmanentpermeantseparativesuffusive

Questions about distributive

What does distributive mean?

distributive means "serving to distribute or allot or disperse".

How many syllables are in distributive?

distributive has 4 syllables: di-strib-u-tive. The stress falls on "strib". In IPA it is /dɪˈstɹɪbjutɪv/.

What is the opposite of distributive?

The recorded antonyms are collective.

Is distributive a common word?

distributive 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.