Acting as a cause.
Used in a Sentence
causative
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for causative.
Editorial note
I do believe the relationship is causative, but admit it's a hard thing to prove.
Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
Acting as a cause.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of causative gathered in one view.
Involving, or affected by, causality.
(grammar) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for causative.
adjective
Acting as a cause.
See also: conducive, responsible, motor, inducive, inductive
adjective
Involving, or affected by, causality.
See also: conducive, responsible, motor, inducive, inductive
noun
(grammar) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
See also: conducive, responsible, motor, inducive, inductive
adjective
(grammar) Expressing a cause or causation.
See also: conducive, responsible, motor, inducive, inductive
Example sentences
I do believe the relationship is causative, but admit it's a hard thing to prove.
It's a shame that it does seem like jerky behavior is at least correlative, if not causative, to success.
My original statement was inadvertently strong, they've found a causative link between red meat and cancer..
Some labs utilize germ-free mice to investigate the causative role of the microbiome on the host.
If that risk is real, there's also a real chance the causative agent(s) will be administered to the control group.
There is very likely no causative relationship between passion for math or science and schizophrenia.
It is however becoming increasingly clear that it does not play the primary causative role.
Very few people researching neurodegenerative disease believe that Amyloid is the underlying etiological (causative) factor for AD (or other neurodegenerative diseases).
Your gender has an incredibly strong causative influence on how much power you have.
A hypothesis about why people end up in the jobs they do fails to account for whatever non-causative correlation someone can cook up?
Refs 1-3 don't show a causative role for methyl-adenine in increasing gene expression but the correlations the authors report are likely to be followed up.
They didn't say that these factors were independent and causative.
Quote examples
Focusing on this being a "gendered" issue leads you to ignore other factors that may be more predictive (and possibly causative, but there's nothing conclusive yet) than what sex chromosomes someone has.
Causative factors are usually not quite that simple (except maybe in the case of adjustment disorder?) But then again this kind of discussion frequently gets muddied by colloquial use of the term "depression".
Maybe it's not "optimal" but considering that obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc rates have all been climbing like crazy for the last 50 years and the diet has changed a lot in the last 50 years, it's not outside the realm of possibility that the change in diet is causative towards these outcomes rather than simply correlated.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use causative in a sentence?
I do believe the relationship is causative, but admit it's a hard thing to prove.
What does causative mean?
Acting as a cause.
What part of speech is causative?
causative is commonly used as adjective, noun.