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attributive
[uh-trib-yuh-tiv]
adjective
pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
Grammar.Ģżof or relating to an adjective or noun that is directly adjacent to, in English usually preceding, the noun it modifies, without any intervening linking verb, as the adjective sunny in a sunny day or the noun television in a television screen.
noun
Grammar.Ģżan attributive word, especially an adjective.
attributive
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adjective
relating to an attribute
grammar (of an adjective or adjectival phrase) modifying a noun and constituting part of the same noun phrase, in English normally preceding the noun, as black in Fido is a black dog (as opposed to Fido is black ) Compare predicative
philosophy relative to an understood domain, as small in that elephant is small
noun
an attributive adjective
Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- attributively adverb
- attributiveness noun
- nonattributive adjective
- nonattributively adverb
- nonattributiveness noun
- unattributive adjective
- unattributively adverb
- unattributiveness noun
- ²¹³ŁĖ³Ł°ł¾±²ś³Ü³Ł¾±±¹±š²Ō±š²õ²õ noun
- ²¹³ŁĖ³Ł°ł¾±²ś³Ü³Ł¾±±¹±š±ō²ā adverb
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of attributive1
Example Sentences
I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.
Apart from the attributive tag, the sonnet's sestet, all in the imperative case, is spoken by Liberty herself.
Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes.
In fact, the distinction between noun and adjective is inapplicable to English grammar, and should be replaced by a distinction between objective and attributive words.
"The will dotes that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects."
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