predicative

Meaning of predicative

noun
  1. (grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.
  2. (grammar) In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being.
adjective
  1. (grammar, of an adjectival or nominal phrase) Modifying a noun while in a predicate phrase, which predicate phrase is other than the noun phrase and occurs after a verb, as a predicate; contrasted with attributive.
    In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative, whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive.

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Hyphenation of predicative

pred-ica-tive

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • predicative is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

predicative antonyms

Meaning :

attributive

Translation of predicative

Words that rhyme with predicative

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