dilutive
Makes something less potent
Dilutive describes something that reduces concentration, strength, or value by adding to the total without proportional benefit.
In finance, dilutive shares or actions reduce existing shareholders' ownership percentage or earnings per share: The stock offering was dilutive to current investors.
More broadly, anything that weakens by spreading thin: The expansion proved dilutive to the brand's prestige.
Impartial treatment or ownership value
- sharesUnits of company ownership
- stockGoods kept for sale
- ownershipLegal right of possession
- issuanceOfficial release or distribution
capital · convertible · securities · underwriting · pro-rata · follow-on · secondary · overhang
Dissolving liquid or financially stable
- thinnerLiquid diluting agent
- dissolveDisperse into liquid
- solutionAnswer or liquid mixture
- thinningReducing density or number
concentrate · mixture · suspension · dispersion · volume · additive · reagent · saline
equity
Impartial treatment or ownership value
issuance · capital · convertible · securities · underwriting · pro-rata · follow-on · secondary · overhang · debenture
attenuate
Reduce in force
undermine · impair · erode · reduce · decrease · compromise · degrade · blunt · soften · temper
solvent
Dissolving liquid or financially stable
thinning · concentrate · mixture · suspension · dispersion · volume · additive · reagent · saline · buffer
dilutiveconcentrating
Directing mental effort narrowly
concentrated · strengthening · intensifying · fortifying · enriching