Abortive may refer to:
- Abortion of pregnancy
- Abortive infection, a viral infection that infects a cell without reproducing into more infectious viruses.
- Abortive flower, a flower with a stamen but no pistil.
Famous quotes containing the word abortive:
“To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another, will only produce miserable, abortive performances.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)