affinitive

[ uh-fin-i-tiv ]

adjective

1. characterized by affinity; closely related or associated.

Other Words From

• nonaf·fini·tive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of affinitive¹

First recorded in 1645–55; affinit(y) + -ive

Example Sentences

Iowa Board President Bruce Rastetter said he strongly supports the plan, which requires board approval once there’s an “affinitive agreement.”

From Washington Times

The holding group subsequently expanded by acquiring agencies like Affinitive, Partners & Napier and, earlier this week, Mercury 11, which is to be merged with Shoptology.

From New York Times

Not once in all his western career had he met with an affinitive soul on which he might have leaned and so gained that chastening sense of tender dependence without which no man ever yet attained happiness.

From Project Gutenberg

Calling to another affinitive soul, neither of them knowing or caring, in the all-compensative ecstasy of their own making, that they have lost anything at all!

From Project Gutenberg

Many very able men who have preceded him in scientific labor, and who do not believe that "the bowels will be aroused into animation" by the exhibition of "a small strip of yellow glass three inches in depth, bordered by its affinitive violet," to the umbilical region, or that "Major Buckley developed one hundred and forty-eight persons so that they could read sentences shut up in boxes or nuts," would listen attentively to what he has to say on the anatomy of an atom, metachronism and "chromatic attraction."

From Project Gutenberg