English

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Etymology

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From disturb +‎ -ative.

Adjective

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disturbative (comparative more disturbative, superlative most disturbative)

  1. (chiefly archaic) Of, pertaining to, or causing the act of disturbing.
    • 1859, Dudley Costello, “Gurney; or, Two Fortunes”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 46, page 102:
      It is not to say that all crowds are disturbative, or woe betide fashionable assemblies; but the element of disturbance is always at hand wherever a crowd is collected.