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Adjective partitive has 3 senses

partitive - (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole; "a partitive construction"
partitive - indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"
partitive, separative - serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative"
Antonym: conjunctive (indirect, via disjunctive)

Noun partitive has 1 sense

partitive - word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole
--₁ is a kind of word