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View synonyms for declarative

declarative

[ dih-klar-uh-tiv ]

adjective

  1. serving to declare, make known, or explain:

    a declarative statement.



declarative

/ dɪˈklærətɪv /

adjective

  1. making or having the nature of a declaration


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Derived Forms

  • deˈclaratively, adverb

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Other Words From

  • de·clara·tive·ly adverb
  • nonde·clara·tive adjective
  • nonde·clara·tive·ly adverb
  • nonde·clara·tory adjective
  • unde·clara·tive adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of declarative1

1530–40; < Latin dēclārātīvus explanatory, equivalent to dēclārāt ( us ) ( declaration ) + -īvus -ive

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Example Sentences

Cross-examination is to ask questions, not to make declarative statements to test the story told on direct examination.

Just the subliminal nature of being on stage and making a declarative statement rather than a passive one.

But with just seven months left in his term, Bernanke has made few declarative pronouncements about his future.

The danger is that with Miral, the declarative seems to have taken over.

The project is at once boldly declarative and brilliantly porous to a place locked in flux.

It would not be simply declarative of corporeal existence, but of existence in a particular state or condition.

All Oliver has been able to realize for the last two hours is the mere declarative fact that she is there.

It is the result of kindled emotion, and expresses in exclamatory form what would usually be stated in declarative form.

Each reason given in support of the issues and each subreason should be no more than a simple, complete, declarative sentence.

The topic must be given some definite expression in a declarative sentence before any real argument is possible.

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Declaration of Independencedeclarative sentence