operative - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

Synonyms

• PI
• operative
• private detective
• private eye
• private investigator
• shamus
• sherlock

More generic

• detective

More specific

• hotel detective
• house detective
• house dick
• inquiry agent
• store detective

Noun

a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

Synonyms

• intelligence agent
• intelligence officer
• operative
• secret agent

More generic

• agent

More specific

• NOC
• agent provocateur
• agent-in-place
• bridge agent
• case officer
• codetalker
• foot
• provocateur
• spy
• undercover agent
• walk-in
• windtalker

Adjective

being in force or having or exerting force

Synonyms

• operative

Related

• effective
• good
• in effect
• in force
• in operation
• operant
• operating
• operational
• working

Opposite / Antonyms

• inoperative

Adjective

(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

Synonyms

• functional
• operative
• running
• working

Related

• functioning

Adjective

relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine

Synonyms

• operative
• surgical

Related

• postoperative
• preoperative

Adjective

effective; producing a desired effect

Synonyms

• operative

Related

• important
• significant

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