Adjective: cooperative
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more cooperative |
| Superlative | most cooperative |
Sample Sentences
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The patient was rarely cooperative, and tended to refuse treatment.
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Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011). [2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:]
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a cooperative game
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a cooperative business enterprise
Adjectives inflected like cooperative
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Latin co-der.
8. English co-
9. English operative
10. English cooperative
11. From co- + operative.
Verbs referencing "cooperative"
Dutch Adjectives
coöperatief, Finnish Adjectives
kooperatiivinen.