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Antonyms for recreative

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ree-kree-eyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˌri kriˈeɪt

Definition of recreative

Origin : also re-create, "to create anew," 1580s, from re- "back, again" + create. Related: Recreated; recreating; recreation.

As in entertaining : adj amusing, pleasing

Example sentences :

Selected, graded, recreative indoor and outdoor games and play.iv.
Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper

Selected, graded, recreative indoor and outdoor games and play.
Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper

The social and recreative side of rural life must be developed.
Extract from : « The Challenge of the Country » by George Walter Fiske

The third method of developing the country community is recreative.
Extract from : « The Evolution of the Country Community » by Warren H. Wilson

This reading is not tiring; it is recreative 61and stimulating.
Extract from : « Forging Ahead in Business » by Various

The legislation proposed and executed was restrictive, not recreative.
Extract from : « The Leaven in a Great City » by Lillian William Betts

They represent all the educational and recreative opportunity of most of the adults.
Extract from : « The Leaven in a Great City » by Lillian William Betts

At all events, their drawing lessons should be made as recreative as possible.
Extract from : « A Joy For Ever » by John Ruskin

This recreative impulse of the poet's is not wilful, as Thompson calls it: it is moral.
Extract from : « Winds Of Doctrine » by George Santayana

But chiefly, let the music of them be recreative, and with some strange changes.
Extract from : « Essays » by Francis Bacon

Synonyms for recreative

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