1. Serving to separate or divide into parts
   "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative";
   - partitive
    
2. (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
   "whereas ‘each’, ‘every’, ‘either’, ‘neither’, and ‘none’ are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, ‘which’ in ‘which of the men’ is separative"
    
3. (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it
   "The separative accent helped clarify the structure of the Hebrew sentence"

See also: disjunctive, distributive