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operative
Synonyms and Antonyms of operative
- the last operative bookbinder of its kind in the business
active, alive, functional, functioning, going, live, living, on, operating, operational, running, working
- unfortunately, the operative amount of the medication and the lethal amount were too close for it to be used safely
hyperefficient, ultraefficient
accomplished, adept, consummate, experienced, expert, masterly, practiced (also practised), proficient, skilled, skillful, versed, veteran, virtuoso
cogent, convincing, killer, sound, striking, telling, valid
applicable, feasible, functional, practicable, practical, realizable, usable (also useable), workable
operative
Synonyms and Antonyms of operative
- CIA operatives take terrible risks to find out the secrets of foreign countries
agent, asset, emissary, intelligencer, mole, spook, spy, undercover
- set in the 1930s, the novel is about a washed-out operative working for a third-rate detective agency
detective, dick, gumshoe, hawkshaw, investigator, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus [slang], sherlock, sleuth, sleuthhound
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