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attributive

DEFINITIONS OF: attributive

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adj of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify

“`red' is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'”
Synonyms:
prenominal
attributive genitive
a word in the genitive case used as an attributive adjective
Antonyms:
predicative
of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence
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