dividual
Americanadjective
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divisible or divided.
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separate; distinct.
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distributed; shared.
Other Word Forms
- dividually adverb
Etymology
Origin of dividual
First recorded in 1590–1600; from Latin dīvidu(us) “divided, divisible,” equivalent to dīvid(ere) “to divide, separate” + -uus adjective suffix; divide, -al 1
Example Sentences
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It is a world in which the in dividual is expected to play a relatively more passive role within the group.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last in dividual the patient sees and hears be fore he "goes under" is the person who gives the anesthetic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever emotions Cunningham's audiences feel are entirely in dividual.
From Time Magazine Archive
Partly the difficulty lies in trying to extrapolate a general statement of American performance in Viet Nam from the in dividual American stories that Cimino presents.
From Time Magazine Archive
She began to moan, and sigh deep sighs, then murmur as holding colloquy with a dividual self: her queendom was no longer whole; it was divided against itself.
From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George
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