 Synonyms and Antonyms of operative 
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1. (noun) secret agent, intelligence officer, intelligence agent, operative
a person secretly employed in espionage for a government
Synonyms: intelligence officer, private detective, sherlock, private eye, private investigator, intelligence agent, shamus, operative, secret agent
Antonyms: down, insignificant, unimportant, defunct, malfunctioning, dead, nonfunctional, inoperative
2. (adj) private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlock
someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
Synonyms: private investigator, private detective, intelligence officer, sherlock, private eye, intelligence agent, shamus, protease inhibitor, operative, secret agent, principal investigator
Antonyms: malfunctioning, defunct, nonfunctional, inoperative, unimportant, down, insignificant, dead
3. (adj) operative
being in force or having or exerting force
Synonyms: functional, running(a), working(a), surgical
Antonyms: dead, unimportant, malfunctioning, insignificant, nonfunctional, defunct, inoperative, down
4. (adj) surgical, operative
relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
Synonyms: functional, running(a), working(a), surgical, operative
Antonyms: inoperative, dead, malfunctioning, unimportant, defunct, nonfunctional, down, insignificant
5. (adj) operative
effective; producing a desired effect
Synonyms: functional, running(a), working(a), surgical
Antonyms: nonfunctional, down, insignificant, defunct, malfunctioning, dead, unimportant, inoperative
6. (adj) running(a), operative, functional, working(a)
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
Antonyms: unimportant, defunct, down, insignificant, dead, malfunctioning, nonfunctional, inoperative
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