Usually means: Declining in quality or condition.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word deteriorative:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. deteriorative: Merriam-Webster
  2. deteriorative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deteriorative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deteriorative: Wordnik
  5. deteriorative: Wiktionary
  6. deteriorative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. deteriorative: Dictionary.com
  8. deteriorative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deteriorative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deteriorative: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deteriorative)

▸ adjective:  Causing deterioration.

Similar:
degradatory, degrative, corrosive, depreciative, disintegrating, denigratory, detractive, demeaning, detractory, reductive, more...

Opposite:
improving, enhancing, developing, advancing

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Similar:
degradatory, degrative, corrosive, depreciative, disintegrating, denigratory, detractive, demeaning, detractory, reductive, more...

Opposite:
improving, enhancing, developing, advancing



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