1. serving to terminate or bring to an end
Usage: formal
2. expressing or indicating termination or completion
Usage: grammar; linguistics

Examples

• The contract included a terminative clause that ended the agreement after five years.
• His terminative decision closed the debate permanently.
• The terminative aspect of the verb indicates completed action.
• The board’s terminative vote dissolved the committee.
• She made a terminative gesture that ended the discussion.
• The terminative suffix changed the meaning of the word completely.