例句 |
operativeadjective being in effective operationthe last operative bookbinder of its kind in the business active, alive, functional, functioning, going, live, living, on, operating, operational, running, working effective, effectualemployable, operable, usable(also useable), viable, workableperforming, producing, productive, serving, useful, yieldingastir, bustling, busy, dynamic, flourishing, humming, roaring, thriving in commission(or into commission), in force, in gear, on line broken, dead, inactive, inoperative, kaput(also kaputt), nonactivated, nonfunctional, nonfunctioning, nonoperating, nonoperational, nonoperative deactivated, decommissionedineffective, ineffectual, uselessinoperable, unusable, unworkablearrested, asleep, dormant, fallow, idle, inert, latent, lifeless, nonproductive, quiescent, sleepy, stagnating, unproductive, vegetating producing or capable of producing a desired resultunfortunately, the operative amount of the medication and the lethal amount were too close for it to be used safely effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, fruitful, potent, productive hyperefficient, ultraefficientadequate, capable, competentaccomplished, adept, consummate, experienced, expert, masterly, practiced(also practised), proficient, skilled, skillful, versed, veteran, virtuosocogent, convincing, killer, sound, striking, telling, validactive, dynamicuseful, workingapplicable, feasible, functional, practicable, practical, realizable, usable(also useable), workable fruitless, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, inoperative, unfruitful, unproductive, useless counterproductiveincapable, incompetent, inexperienced, inexpert, unqualified, unseasoned, unskilled, unskillfulabortive, bootless, futile, vainempty, hollow, idle, pointless, unavailing, unprofitable, unsuccessfulinoperative, worthless operativenouna person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly countryCIA operatives take terrible risks to find out the secrets of foreign countries agent, asset, emissary, intelligencer, mole, spook, spy, undercover couriercounterspy, double agent, sleeperinfiltrator, informer, stool pigeonspymaster, superspy secret agent, undercover agent a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing personsset 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 shadow, tail, tracer, trackerfed, Federal, G-man, narc(or nark, slang), plainclothesman in the 15th century |