(as predicative)
1Predicative — may mean:* Predicative (adjectival or nominal) * Predicative (verb) * Lacking impredicativity …
2Predicative — Pred i*ca*tive, a. [L. praedicativus.] Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term. {Pred i*ca*tive*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …
3predicative — ► ADJECTIVE 1) Grammar (of an adjective or noun) forming or contained in the predicate, as old in the dog is old (but not in the old dog). Contrasted with ATTRIBUTIVE(Cf. ↑attributively). 2) Logic acting as a predicate. DERIVATIVES predicatively… …
4Predicative (adjectival or nominal) — In grammar, a predicative is an element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. A predicative may be nominal or adjectival. If the complement after a linking verb is a noun or a pronoun, it is… …
5predicative — 1. adjective Used after a verb, as a predicate; In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative, whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive. Ant: attributive 2. noun An element of the …
6Predicative verb — A predicative verb is a verb that behaves as a grammatical adjective, that is, it predicates (qualifies or informs about the properties of its argument). It is a special kind of stative verb.Many languages do not use the present forms of the verb …
7predicative adjective — noun An adjective that is not part of the noun clause it modifies, but is linked to it with a copula. ‘Complicated’ is a predicative adjective in the sentence ‘Grammar is complicated.’ …
8prédicative — ● prédicatif, prédicative adjectif (bas latin praedicativus, énonciatif) Qui concerne le prédicat, la prédication. Se dit d un élément qui assume le rôle de prédicat. En grammaire traditionnelle, se dit d une phrase réduite au seul prédicat ; se… …
9predicative — adj. Predicative is used with these nouns: ↑adjective …
10predicative — pre|dic|a|tive [prıˈdıkətıv US ˈpredıkeı ] adj technical a predicative adjective or phrase comes after a verb, for example happy in the sentence She is happy. >predicatively adv …
