Synonyms: distributive
Definition: serving to distribute or allot or disperse
Similar words: allocable, allocatable, apportionable
Definition: capable of being distributed
Similar words: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive, disseminative
Definition: spreading by diffusion
Similar words: immanent
Definition: of qualities that are spread throughout something
Usage: ambition is immanent in human nature; we think of God as immanent in nature
Similar words: permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive
Definition: spreading or spread throughout
Usage: armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations; the pervasive odor of garlic; an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion
Similar words: separative
Definition: (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
Usage: whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative
Similar words: suffusive
Definition: spreading through
Usage: suffusive purple light