Usually means: Cleansing agent that removes dirt.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. detersive: Merriam-Webster
  2. detersive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. detersive: Collins English Dictionary
  4. detersive: Vocabulary.com
  5. detersive: Wordnik
  6. detersive: Wiktionary
  7. detersive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. detersive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. detersive: Dictionary.com
  10. Detersive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. detersive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. detersive: Rhymezone
  13. Detersive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. detersive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. detersive: FreeDictionary.org
  16. detersive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. detersive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detersive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. detersive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detersive)

▸ adjective:  Having cleansing abilities
▸ noun:  A cleansing agent; a detergent.

Similar:
detergent, purifying, mundificative, cleansing, purificatory, cleanly, clysmic, desinential, clarifying, detoxificative, more...

Opposite:
adhesive, sticky, cohesive, tenacious

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Similar:
detergent, purifying, mundificative, cleansing, purificatory, cleanly, clysmic, desinential, clarifying, detoxificative, more...

Opposite:
adhesive, sticky, cohesive, tenacious



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