629 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ˈɒpəɹətˌɪv], [ ˈɒpəɹətˌɪv], [ ˈɒ_p_ə_ɹ_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]

Similar words for operative:

• accessible (adjective)
• active (adjective)
• active, functioning; influential (adjective)
• alive (adjective)
• all (adjective)
• begun (adjective)
• effective (adjective)
• efficacious (adjective)
• functional (adjective)
• going (adjective)
• helpful (adjective)
• influential (adjective)
• live (adjective)
• living (adjective)
• on-line (adjective)
• open (adjective)
• open-door (adjective)
• operational (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• practicable (adjective)
• practical (adjective)
• prevailing (adjective)
• running (adjective)
• serviceable (adjective)
• telling (adjective)
• usable (adjective)
• working (adjective)
• agent (noun)
• agent provocateur (noun)
• employee (noun)
• hand (noun)
• in force (noun)
• intelligence officer (noun)
• labor (noun)
• operator (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• private detective (noun)
• roustabout (noun)
• secret agent (noun)
• spy (noun)
• worker (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• inquirer
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "operative" in context?

Paraphrases for operative

Synonyms for Operative:

• adj.

  • accessible (adjective)
  • doors always open,
  • ex-posed,
  • most getatable,
  • ex posed,
  • un restricted,
  • more getatable,
  • most possible,
  • door always open,
  • un-restricted.
  • active (adjective)
  • walking,
  • in process,
  • at work,
  • shifting,
  • operating,
  • in force,
  • functioning,
  • in play,
  • swarming,
  • Exertive.
  • active, functioning; influential (adjective)
  • current,
  • crucial,
  • standing,
  • workable,
  • indicative,
  • functional,
  • efficient,
  • key,
  • dynamic,
  • significant,
  • important,
  • in operation,
  • relevant.
  • alive (adjective)
  • Subsisting,
  • more around,
  • more zoetic,
  • zoetic,
  • most subsisting,
  • more subsisting,
  • most around,
  • growing,
  • most zoetic.
  • all (adjective)
  • surgical,
  • operative.
  • begun (adjective)
  • be gun,
  • more happening,
  • be-gun,
  • most happening.
  • effective (adjective)
  • potent,
  • in execution,
  • playing hardball,
  • powerhouse,
  • virtuous,
  • forcible,
  • having lead in pencil.
  • efficacious (adjective)
  • puissant.
  • functional (adjective)
  • utile,
  • more utility,
  • most utility,
  • more utile,
  • most utile.
  • going (adjective)
  • rustest.
  • helpful (adjective)
  • more caring,
  • most bettering,
  • most serendipitous,
  • more symbiotic,
  • more supportive,
  • more serendipitous,
  • in valuable,
  • more bettering,
  • most caring,
  • co operative,
  • most symbiotic,
  • in-valuable.
  • influential (adjective)
  • adequate.
  • live (adjective)
  • un-settled,
  • un settled.
  • living (adjective)
  • in use.
  • on-line (adjective)
  • in stalled,
  • on internet,
  • plugged in,
  • more networked,
  • in-stalled,
  • hooked up,
  • most networked.
  • open (adjective)
  • getable,
  • open-door,
  • Securable,
  • within reach,
  • to be had,
  • on deck,
  • nondiscriminatory,
  • be had,
  • non-discriminatory,
  • not posted.
  • open-door (adjective)
  • opendoor.
  • operational (adjective)
  • in service,
  • in working order.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • doable,
  • living,
  • consumable,
  • in progress,
  • in style,
  • on-line,
  • on stream,
  • live,
  • wieldy,
  • workaday,
  • online,
  • ready for use,
  • working,
  • in motion,
  • serviceable,
  • accessible,
  • operational,
  • efficacious,
  • utilizable,
  • effective,
  • alive,
  • at disposal,
  • in action,
  • assistive,
  • telling,
  • all-embracing,
  • practical,
  • symbiotic,
  • open,
  • hard-wearing,
  • co-operative,
  • serendipitous,
  • door's always open,
  • getatable,
  • matter of fact,
  • on line,
  • by numbers,
  • usable,
  • in order,
  • practicable,
  • good for,
  • unidealistic,
  • active,
  • accessible by computer,
  • both feet on the ground,
  • Performable,
  • hardwearing,
  • ruster,
  • electronically connected,
  • Begun,
  • under way,
  • hardboiled.
  • practicable (adjective)
  • doablest,
  • most performable,
  • more performable,
  • doabler.
  • practical (adjective)
  • both feet on ground,
  • both feet ground,
  • un-idealistic,
  • un-romantic,
  • most workaday,
  • more unidealistic,
  • hard boiled,
  • nuts bolts,
  • both feet the ground,
  • un romantic,
  • more workaday,
  • most unidealistic,
  • un idealistic.
  • prevailing (adjective)
  • all embracing,
  • allembracing,
  • more all embracing,
  • pre-dominating,
  • more preponderating,
  • more predominating,
  • uni versal,
  • pre-dominant,
  • most allembracing,
  • pre dominant,
  • more all-embracing,
  • pre-vailing,
  • uni-versal,
  • prevailing,
  • most preponderating,
  • worldwide,
  • re-gular,
  • re gular,
  • most all embracing,
  • pre vailing,
  • pre dominating,
  • most all-embracing,
  • most predominating.
  • running (adjective)
  • in succession,
  • cursive.
  • serviceable (adjective)
  • more aiding,
  • most hard-wearing,
  • more hard wearing,
  • more hard-wearing,
  • most aiding,
  • more assistive,
  • most assistive,
  • most hardwearing,
  • most hard wearing,
  • hard wearing,
  • more hardwearing.
  • telling (adjective)
  • most telling,
  • more telling.
  • usable (adjective)
  • more consumable,
  • un-used,
  • wieldiest,
  • most consumable,
  • wieldier.
  • working (adjective)
  • in full swing,
  • in a job,
  • on track,
  • in gear,
  • on the job.

• n.

  •
  • bug,
  • collaboration,
  • collaborate,
  • double agent,
  • espionage,
  • counterintelligence,
  • industrial espionage,
  • collaborator.
  •
  • high-powered,
  • helpful,
  • be.
  •
  • operable,
  • on the factory floor,
  • possible,
  • the shop floor.
  •
  • going,
  • awareness,
  • action.
  • agent (noun)
  • appointee,
  • agency,
  • go-between,
  • broker,
  • instrument,
  • alternate,
  • second,
  • representative,
  • auxiliary,
  • intermediary,
  • lieutenant,
  • liaison,
  • middleman,
  • emissary,
  • vehicle,
  • executor,
  • factor,
  • delegate,
  • actor,
  • substitute,
  • surrogate,
  • mediator,
  • ombudsman,
  • attorney,
  • impresario,
  • deputy,
  • proxy.
  • agent provocateur (noun)
  • agent-provocateur,
  • provokers,
  • non cooperator,
  • non cooperators,
  • non-cooperators,
  • intelligence agents,
  • noncooperators,
  • rabble rouser,
  • provocative agents,
  • rabblerouser,
  • non-cooperator.
  • employee (noun)
  • employee.
  • hand (noun)
  • hired persons,
  • hired people.
  • in force (noun)
  • force.
  • intelligence officer (noun)
  • intelligence officer.
  • labor (noun)
  • blue collar,
  • rank file,
  • blue collars,
  • working peoples.
  • operator (noun)
  • Operators.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • stiffs,
  • serf,
  • sleepers,
  • worker,
  • undercover agent,
  • Moles,
  • user,
  • artificer,
  • working stiff,
  • artificers,
  • ringleader,
  • company person,
  • spark,
  • rank and file,
  • sleeper,
  • proletarian,
  • inside agent,
  • working person,
  • proletarians,
  • prentice,
  • spotters,
  • sound,
  • working stiffs,
  • hand,
  • hired person,
  • Tradespeople,
  • spotter,
  • Intelligencer,
  • secret agent,
  • labor,
  • operator,
  • espionage agent,
  • intelligence agent,
  • detective,
  • noncooperator,
  • prentices,
  • tradesperson,
  • agent,
  • white collar,
  • working people,
  • provoker,
  • spy,
  • nine-to-fiver,
  • foreign agent,
  • provocative agent,
  • trader,
  • roustabout,
  • person,
  • provocateurs,
  • provocateur.
  • private detective (noun)
  • beagles,
  • flatfoot,
  • dicks,
  • TECS,
  • skip tracer,
  • PIS,
  • sleuthhound,
  • Flatfeet,
  • flatfoots,
  • beagle,
  • private dick,
  • tec.
  • roustabout (noun)
  • farmhand,
  • Workmen,
  • Workingmen,
  • farmhands,
  • manual worker,
  • unskilled worker,
  • unskilled workers,
  • Workwomen.
  • secret agent (noun)
  • cloak-and-dagger man.
  • spy (noun)
  • in-former,
  • intelligencers,
  • foreign agents,
  • in-formers,
  • inside agents,
  • espionage agents,
  • in former,
  • in formers,
  • undercover agents.
  • worker (noun)
  • company persons,
  • working persons,
  • nine to fivers,
  • nine-to-fivers,
  • nine to fiver,
  • company people,
  • white collars.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • movement.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • expeditious,
  • working girl,
  • constructive,
  • useful,
  • packer,
  • invaluable,
  • time-saving,
  • well-run,
  • employable,
  • usefully,
  • Workingman,
  • proven,
  • well-oiled,
  • workingwoman,
  • worthwhile,
  • nifty,
  • functionally,
  • well-worn,
  • on-stream,
  • Workwoman.
  •
  • expedient,
  • effectively,
  • utilitarian,
  • valuable,
  • paymaster,
  • handily,
  • general-purpose,
  • purposeful,
  • forewoman,
  • tailored,
  • laborer,
  • meaningful,
  • shop floor.
  •
  • powerful,
  • tailor-made,
  • running,
  • spook,
  • priceless,
  • handy,
  • sweetly.
  •
  • deadly.
  •
  • worth,
  • robust.
  •
  • smooth.
  •
  • strong.
  •
  • man.
  • inquirer
  • investigator.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • carry on,
  • hack,
  • essential,
  • Armipotent,
  • lively,
  • busy,
  • extend,
  • pragmatic,
  • beast of burden,
  • driver,
  • into operation,
  • drudge,
  • legate,
  • Influencing,
  • impart,
  • brisk,
  • irresistible,
  • officiate,
  • cloak-and-dagger operative,
  • house dick,
  • nuncio,
  • prime mover,
  • open door,
  • take hold,
  • go,
  • propulsive,
  • cogent,
  • workman,
  • vital,
  • take,
  • gumshoe,
  • private detective,
  • driving,
  • conductor,
  • sleuth,
  • practitioner,
  • operation,
  • journeyman,
  • principal investigator,
  • administer,
  • behave,
  • inquiry agent,
  • authoritative,
  • real,
  • thrifty,
  • minister,
  • deliver,
  • agent provocateur,
  • t-man,
  • perform,
  • forceful,
  • dick,
  • high-potency,
  • author,
  • manage,
  • navvy,
  • primal,
  • plainclothesman,
  • counter-spy,
  • depart,
  • affect,
  • executrix,
  • proficient,
  • mole,
  • proceed,
  • operate,
  • company man,
  • reserve,
  • handwriting,
  • apply,
  • effectual,
  • perpetrator,
  • fruitful,
  • come,
  • in effect,
  • carry,
  • ambassador,
  • police detective,
  • lumper,
  • kinetic,
  • in power,
  • artisan,
  • capable,
  • craftswoman,
  • on,
  • transitive,
  • counterintelligence agent,
  • work,
  • decisive,
  • eye,
  • functionary,
  • scout,
  • laboring,
  • stand-in,
  • federal,
  • function,
  • labourer,
  • engineer,
  • subject,
  • practise,
  • acting,
  • high-tension,
  • fundamental,
  • be efficacious,
  • make out,
  • blue-collar worker,
  • working man,
  • fag,
  • preoperative,
  • g-man,
  • deal in,
  • deal,
  • runner,
  • spokesperson,
  • mover,
  • postoperative,
  • execute,
  • operant,
  • linear,
  • move,
  • replacement,
  • architect,
  • counterspy,
  • mechanic,
  • able,
  • nimble,
  • influential,
  • artist,
  • industrious,
  • store detective,
  • Prepotent,
  • handle,
  • reconnoiterer,
  • run,
  • machinist,
  • unwasteful,
  • secret service,
  • envoy,
  • basic,
  • sherlock,
  • medical procedure,
  • pilot,
  • sleuth-hound,
  • inside man,
  • maker,
  • elapse,
  • producer,
  • instigate,
  • being in force,
  • competent,
  • diligent,
  • private eye,
  • spokesman,
  • actual,
  • hotel detective,
  • take effect,
  • striking,
  • performing,
  • ruling,
  • manipulate,
  • Treasury agent,
  • handicraftsman,
  • spokeswoman,
  • true,
  • charwoman,
  • impelling,
  • be effective,
  • impressive,
  • applicative,
  • energetic,
  • valid,
  • private investigator,
  • vigorous,
  • steersman,
  • medium,
  • doer,
  • useable,
  • do the trick,
  • special agent,
  • Energetical,
  • motive,
  • viable,
  • bring,
  • undercover man,
  • high pressure,
  • tradesman,
  • house detective,
  • propelling,
  • be functional,
  • revenuer,
  • activating,
  • pi,
  • executant,
  • productive,
  • trade,
  • mighty,
  • employed,
  • fabricator,
  • economic,
  • narc,
  • excite,
  • espy,
  • central,
  • fed,
  • convey,
  • handler,
  • shamus,
  • craftsman,
  • manipulator,
  • Sherlock Holmes,
  • good,
  • creator,
  • performer,
  • moving.

How to use "Operative" in context?

Paraphrases for Operative:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    operating.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    operating.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    applicable, effective, enforceable, operable, surgical, workable, working, Dispositive, operational-level.
  • Proper noun, singular
    reasons, aspects, RESS.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    spy, working.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    active, functional, operational.
  • Proper noun, singular
    operational.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    activist, conspirator, operational, operator.