impactive

English edit

Etymology edit

impact +‎ -ive

Adjective edit

impactive (comparative more impactive, superlative most impactive)

Of, pertaining to, possessing, or caused by impact.
- 1880, W. S. Barnard, “Protoplasmic Dynamics”, in The American Naturalist, volume 14, number 4, page 237:
  It is necessary to distinguish all forces sharply into two groups: 1, the attractional (gravity, adhesion, cohesion, chemism), and 2, the impactive or momentum forces of masses, molecules and atoms.
- 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter II, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance [...] With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book II (Rosemary’s Angle: 1919–1925), pages 59–60:
  As Rosemary came onto the beach a boy of twelve ran past her and dashed into the sea with exultant cries. Feeling the impactive scrutiny of strange faces, she took off her bathrobe and followed.
- 1970, Kent Kirby, “Art, Technology and the Liberal Arts College”, in Art Journal, volume 29, number 3, page 330:
  Along with this revolution has come another, quieter and more subtle, but perhaps more impactive and ultimately more dynamic in its potential for change.
- 2001 February 18, Elissa Gootman, “An Intricate Bond; New Haven's past and future are so tied to Yale, but it took 300 years for the two to get along”, in New York Times:
  And in what may prove to be the most impactive development, the university is nurturing the nexus of science and business to create a biotechnology sector that has already brought millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs into town.

References edit

“impactive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.