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Counteractive   Listen
adjective
Counteractive  adj.  Tending to counteract.



noun
Counteractive  n.  One who, or that which, counteracts.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Counteractive" Quotes from Famous Books



... hoped much from the Chon-do Kyo, a powerful movement encouraged by the authorities because they thought that it would be a valuable counteractive to Christianity. Its leader was Son Pyung-hi, an old Korean friend of Japan. As far back as 1894, when the Japanese arranged the Tong-hak Rebellion in Korea, to give them an excuse for provoking war with China, Son was one of their leading agents. He believed that Western influence ...
— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie

... her way back, no longer hungering for the cold moist air as a counteractive of inward excitement, but with a chill at her heart which made the outward chill only depressing. The golden sunlight beamed through the dripping boughs like a Shechinah, or visible divine presence, and ...
— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot



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