The Meaning of regulative

• (a.) Tending to regulate; regulating.
• (a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.

Synonyms

regulatory

Rhymes

accommodative , accumulative , administrative , alliterative , appreciative , authoritative , collaborative , commemorative , cooperative , creative , dative , deliberative , facultative , imitative , innovative , investigative , iterative , legislative , manipulative , native , nonnative , probative , prognosticative , qualitative , quantitative , rehabilitative , stative , stimulative , vegetative