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abductive

  • /æbˈdʌk.tɪv/ US
  • /ˈæbˌdək.tɪv/ US

Rhymes with -ʌktɪv

adjective

  1. not comparable Related or pertaining to abductor muscles and their movement.
  2. not comparable Being or relating to a logical process of abduction or inference.
  3. not comparable, rare Abducting, pertaining to an abduction (a kidnapping). The logs showed that between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the abductive day, 10,718 SIMs connected with the seven […] Some people in the kidnap zone would of course have called each other innocently, but […]

Opposite: deductive

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adjective

Opposite: deductive

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adj anatomy

Italianoabduttore
Românăabductor
Русскийотводя́щий otvodjáščij

adj logic

Portuguêsabdutivo
Deutschabduktiv
Italianoabduttivo
Ελληνικάαπαγωγικός apagogikós

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@misc{abductive_2026,
  title = {abductive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/abductive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}