Operative vs Operativeness - What's the difference?
operative | operativeness |
Effectual or important.
Functional, in working order.
Having the power of acting; hence, exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects.
* South
Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious.
Based upon, or consisting of, a surgical operation or operations.
An employee or other worker with some particular function or skill.
A spy, secret agent, or detective.
A participant of an operation.
(uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
(countable) The result or product of being operative.
As nouns the difference between operative and operativeness
is that operative is an employee or other worker with some particular function or skill while operativeness is the state or quality of being operative.As an adjective operative
is effectual or important.operative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He's usually in a good mood — the operative word there being "usually". Today was a disaster.
- an operative motive
- It holds in all operative principles.
- an operative dose, rule, or penalty
- operative surgery