ATTRIBUTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attributive mean? 

• ATTRIBUTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective ATTRIBUTIVE has 1 sense:

1. of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify

  Familiarity information: ATTRIBUTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTRIBUTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify

Synonyms:

attributive; prenominal

Context example:

'red' is an attributive adjective in 'a red apple'

Similar:

attributive genitive (a word in the genitive case used as an attributive adjective)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Antonym:

predicative (of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence)