Definitions For Operatively

adverb

  • In a manner to produce an effect

verb

  • A person who does secret work for a government or political organization
  • A person who does work that involves using tools, operating machinery, etc.

Is Operatively a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
19
Words with Friends
21

The word Operatively is worth 19 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Operatively in a Sentence

  • The factory must pass inspection before it becomes operative.
  • The telephone system is now fully operative.
  • If I go, I will bring a salad. “If,” however, is the operative word, since I am not sure that I can go.
  • CIA operatives take terrible risks to find out the secrets of foreign countries.
  • Set in the 1930s, the novel is about a washed-out operative working for a third-rate detective agency

Antonyms for Operatively

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