regulative

Speech parts

1. regulative - Adjective

2. regulative - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending to regulate; regulating.

Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

regulatory standard supervisory administrative controlling adjustment boss commanding directive bureaucratic managerial governing regulating adaptive organizational
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Antonyms

small auxiliary unknown minor secondary lesser
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Examples

Every law, every constitution, every regulative decision is based upon what people are discussing in their community. It's based upon our sum knowledge of history and the present. Julian Assange

a regulatory gene Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

regulation time regulational regulationist regulatome regulator regulator gene