concerned with, making, or controlling adjustments
to settle in a chair with adjustive motions
a thermostat with an adjustive dial
Word origin
[1880–85; adjust + -ive]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: automatism, barnstorm, interface, pari-mutuel, rain check-ive is a suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition,function, connection, etc. Other words that use the affix -ive include: corrective, destructive, detective, passive, sportive