regulative

regulative is a 10-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to regulate; regulating. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Tending to regulate; regulating.
2. adjective. Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.
3. adjective. restricting according to rules or principles

   "a regulatory gene"

   Synonyms: regulatory

Synonyms

regulatory

Common word forms

regulatively

Words from these letters

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