If you say something that is intended to make people angry with each other, your words are divisive. If you want to avoid divisive talk at your family's Thanksgiving dinner, it's probably best to avoid discussing politics.
Indicating division or distribution.
Adjective S.
dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
a.
Indicating division or distribution.
a.
Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or
difference.
Divisive
It [culture] is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity.--
Indicating division or distribution.
Usage Examples
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'
It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.
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Other Usage ExamplesI think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.
For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.