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Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'operative' Princeton's WordNet 

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


Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'operative' English Synonyms and Antonyms 

1. operative
Artist, artificer and artisan are all from the root of art, but artist holds to the esthetic sense, while artificer and artisan follow the mechanical or industrial sense of the word (se
Synonyms: artist, artificer, artisan, mechanic, operative, workman


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