Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
emancipative is an adjective meaning "tending to set free". It carries one recorded sense.
tending to set free
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for emancipative come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.