Skip to main content

procreative

/prō′krē-ā′tĭv/

生育的,生育,生殖,生产性的

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Julian Suvalescu, professor of practical ethics at Oxford, has advocated a position he calls “procreative beneficence.”

  • Then there are the “bad” women who vote Democratic and, well, have sex for non-procreative purposes.

  • They're supposed to be within marriage, for purposes that are, yes, conjugal... but also procreative.

  • Sex, he said, is “supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal and unitive, but also procreative.”

  • The peasant's mistress is his Land; he loves it with intensest delight, with procreative love.

  • This case, with respect to the degree of procreative delicacy and refinement evinced, may be classed with that of Juno of Greece.

  • I incline to the opinion that they go back to the sea in the fall soon after their procreative duty is performed.

  • All strength, vitality, erectile and procreative power have left them, and the victim is at last totally impotent.

  • But also, it may be and often is manifested independently of the procreative function by men and women of refinement.