Usually means: Breaking rules or exceeding limits.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word violative:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. violative: Merriam-Webster
  2. violative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. violative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. violative: Vocabulary.com
  5. violative: Wordnik
  6. violative: Wiktionary
  7. violative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. violative: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. violative: Dictionary.com
  10. Violative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. violative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. violative: Rhymezone
  13. Violative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. violative: FreeDictionary.org
  15. violative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Violative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. violative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. violative: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (US) Tending to violate; constituting a violation; of or relating to violation.

Similar:
offending, offensive, violational, transgressional, versive, infractional, perjurious, revocational, revocatory, deviational, more...

Opposite:
compliant, respectful, obedient, conforming, adherent

Types:
aggressive, threatening, harmful, dangerous, violent, malicious, hostile, more...

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Similar:
offending, offensive, violational, transgressional, versive, infractional, perjurious, revocational, revocatory, deviational, more...

Opposite:
compliant, respectful, obedient, conforming, adherent

Types:
aggressive, threatening, harmful, dangerous, violent, malicious, hostile, more...



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