Synonyms: causative
Definition: producing an effect
Usage: poverty as a causative factor in crime
Similar words: abortifacient
Definition: causing abortion
Similar words: activating, actuating
Definition: causing motion or action or change
Similar words: anorectic, anorexigenic
Definition: causing loss of appetite
Usage: an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug
Similar words: causal
Definition: involving or constituting a cause; causing
Usage: a causal relationship between scarcity and higher prices
Similar words: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory, tributary
Definition: tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
Usage: working conditions are not conducive to productivity; the seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city; a contributory factor
Similar words: errhine
Definition: causing nasal discharge
Similar words: fast
Definition: (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
Usage: a fast lens
Similar words: inducive, inductive
Definition: inducing or influencing; leading on
Usage: inductive to the sin of Eve- John Milton
Similar words: motivating, motivative, motive
Definition: impelling to action
Usage: it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function- Arthur Pap; motive pleas; motivating arguments
Definition: causing or able to cause motion
Usage: a motive force; motive power; motor energy
Similar words: precipitating
Definition: bringing on suddenly or abruptly
Usage: the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce
Similar words: responsible, responsible for
Definition: being the agent or cause
Usage: determined who was the responsible party; termites were responsible for the damage
Similar words: sternutative, sternutatory
Definition: causing sneezing
Usage: pepper is a sternutatory substance