sanctionative

1. 1.

   implying sanction or serving to sanction

   “the guardian's duties were primarily sanctionative rather than administrative”

   Synonymssanctioning

   Similarenabling

Questions about sanctionative

What does sanctionative mean?

sanctionative means "implying sanction or serving to sanction".

How many syllables are in sanctionative?

sanctionative has 5 syllables: sanc-ti-o-na-tive. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for sanctionative?

Close synonyms include sanctioning. 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 sanctionative a common word?

sanctionative 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.