evolutive

[ ev-uh-loo-tivor, especially British, ee-vuh- ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or promoting evolution; evolutionary:

   an evolutive process.

2. tending to evolve, or toward evolution.

evolutive

/ ɪˈvɒljʊtɪv /

adjective

1. relating to, tending to, or promoting evolution

Word History and Origins

Origin of evolutive¹

First recorded in 1870–75; evolut(ion) + -ive

Example Sentences

“The situation tonight is very evolutive at international level. We are following the situation in Italy,” Veran told a news conference.

From Reuters

“We are too different; the fruit of two diverse evolutive tracks...plants could be aliens for us,” he said.

From The Guardian

But for many the primary purpose, perhaps the only purpose, of a case is protection.Which is the point in this story where Evolutive Labs comes in.

From Forbes

Evolutive’s decision tree is naturally biased towards increased protection, and that has implications for the size of the bumper, the resulting dimensions for your smartphone, the construction, and the fitting.

From Forbes

I shall be well content if in this chapter I can give hints for some future colligation of such evolutive phenomena as may lurk amid a mass of phenomena mainly dissolutive—phenomena whose records are scattered and imperfect, and have as yet only in some few directions, and by quite recent writers, been collated or systematised on any definite plan.

From Project Gutenberg