eversive

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin ēversīvus, from ēvertō.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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eversive (comparative more eversive, superlative most eversive)

  1. Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive.
    • 1800, Alexander Geddes, A Modest Apology for the Roman Catholics of Great Britain:
      a maxim eversive [] of all justice and morality

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eversive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

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Adjective

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eversive

  1. feminine plural of eversivo