violative
adjective
violative is an adjective meaning “Tending to violate; constituting a violation; of or relating to violation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-O-L-A-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does violative mean?
adjective
- 1
USTending to violate; constituting a violation; of or relating to violation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of violative
- more violative comparative
- most violative superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is violative?
Violative appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does violative come from?
From violate + -ive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).