[1615–25; contract + -ive]This word is first recorded in the period 1615–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: discount, garrote, oral, scintillation, swamp-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
Examples of 'contractive' in a sentence
contractive
Food should be a balance of 'expansive' (yin) and 'contractive' (yang).