| IMPEDITIVE | • impeditive adj. (Archaic) Causing hindrance; impeding. • IMPEDITIVE adj. causing hindrance; impeding. |
| REDEMPTIVE | • redemptive adj. Causing, or relating to, redemption or saving; redeeming. • REDEMPTIVE adj. serving to redeem. |
| DEPRIVEMENT | • deprivement n. Deprivation. • DEPRIVEMENT n. the act of depriving. |
| IMPROVIDENT | • improvident adj. Failing to provide for the future; reckless. • improvident adj. Incautious; prone to rashness. • IMPROVIDENT adj. lacking foresight, thoughtless, also UNPROVIDENT. |
| MALADAPTIVE | • maladaptive adj. (Psychology, chiefly of behaviour) Showing inadequate or counterproductive mental and behavioral adaptation… • maladaptive adj. (Evolution, of anatomy, physiology, or behavior) Showing inadequate or counterproductive evolutionary… • MALADAPTIVE adj. marked by poor or inadequate adaptation. |
| DEPRIVEMENTS | • deprivements n. Plural of deprivement. • DEPRIVEMENT n. the act of depriving. |
| IMPROVISATED | • improvisated v. Simple past tense and past participle of improvisate. • IMPROVISATE v. (obsolete) to improvise. |
| POSTMEDIEVAL | • postmedieval adj. After the Middle Ages. • post-medieval adj. Alternative form of postmedieval. • POSTMEDIEVAL adj. taking place after the mediaeval period. |
| REDEMPTIVELY | • redemptively adv. In a redemptive manner. • REDEMPTIVE adv. serving to redeem. |
| DESCRIPTIVISM | • descriptivism n. (Linguistics) The practice of describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms… • DESCRIPTIVISM n. a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| IMPREDICATIVE | • impredicative adj. (Logic, of a proposition) definable only in terms of a totality of which it is itself a part. • IMPREDICATIVE adj. of a definition, given in terms that require quantification over a range that includes that which is to be defined. |
| IMPROVIDENTLY | • improvidently adv. In an improvident manner. • IMPROVIDENT adv. lacking foresight, thoughtless, also UNPROVIDENT. |
| MALADAPTIVELY | • maladaptively adv. In a maladaptive manner. • MALADAPTIVE adv. marked by poor or inadequate adaptation. |
| PREMEDITATIVE | • premeditative adj. Involving premeditation. • PREMEDITATIVE adj. given to or characterized by premeditation. |
| DESCRIPTIVISMS | • descriptivisms n. Plural of descriptivism. • DESCRIPTIVISM n. a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| MISDEVELOPMENT | • misdevelopment n. Bad or wrong development. |
| OVERMULTIPLIED | • overmultiplied v. Simple past tense and past participle of overmultiply. • OVERMULTIPLY v. to become too numerous. |
| ANTIDEVELOPMENT | • antidevelopment adj. (Politics) Opposed to development, particularly the development of neighborhoods or land. • ANTIDEVELOPMENT adj. opposed to development. |
| MISDEVELOPMENTS | • misdevelopments n. Plural of misdevelopment. |
| OVERCOMPLICATED | • overcomplicated adj. Excessively complicated. • overcomplicated v. Simple past tense and past participle of overcomplicate. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |