Scrabble & Words with friends points
- operative is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 14
- operative is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 14
- operative is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 16
Definition of operative
- a person secretly employed in espionage for a government (noun)
Synonyms
- intelligence agent
- intelligence officer
- secret agent
- relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine (adjective)
Examples
- operative dentistry
Synonyms
- surgical
- someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information (noun)
Synonyms
- pi
- private detective
- private eye
- private investigator
- shamus
- sherlock
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing (adjective)
Synonyms
- functional
- running
- working
- being in force or having or exerting force (adjective)
Examples
- operative regulations
- the major tendencies operative in the American political system
- effective; producing a desired effect (adjective)
Examples
- the operative word
See definition of operative in Merriam Webster