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attributive

[ uh-trib-yuh-tiv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
Grammar. of 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.

attributive

/ əˈtrɪbjʊtɪv /

relating to an attribute
See predicative
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

First recorded in 1600–10

In this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: see note, l. 2.

Rnams follows its noun as would any other attributive word—“man plural” (whether two or a million) like “man white.”

Adjective clauses (relative, attributive) always follow, and most often directly, the noun they modify.

An Attributive is a word that connotes an attribute or property, as hot, valorous, and is always grammatically an adjective.

In the substantive verb there are two classes, of which only one is also common to attributive verbs.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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