亚洲网紅露点

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attributive

[ uh-trib-yuh-tiv ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
  2. Grammar. of or relating to an adjective or noun that is directly adjacent to, in English usually preceding, the noun it modifies, without any intervening linking verb, as the adjective sunny in a sunny day or the noun television in a television screen.


noun

  1. Grammar. an attributive word, especially an adjective.

attributive

/ 蓹藞迟谤瑟产箩蕣迟瑟惫 /

adjective

  1. relating to an attribute
  2. grammar (of an adjective or adjectival phrase) modifying a noun and constituting part of the same noun phrase, in English normally preceding the noun, as black in Fido is a black dog (as opposed to Fido is black ) Compare predicative
  3. philosophy relative to an understood domain, as small in that elephant is small
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an attributive adjective
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 补迟藞迟谤颈产耻迟颈惫别苍别蝉蝉, noun
  • 补迟藞迟谤颈产耻迟颈惫别濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 补迟路迟谤颈产顎僽路迟颈惫别路濒测 adverb
  • 补迟路迟谤颈产顎僽路迟颈惫别路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 苍辞苍顎卆迟路迟谤颈产顎僽路迟颈惫别 adjective
  • non顎叢钩俾烦侔辈僽路迟颈惫别路濒测 adverb
  • non顎叢钩俾烦侔辈僽路迟颈惫别路苍别蝉蝉 noun
  • 耻苍顎卆迟路迟谤颈产顎僽路迟颈惫别 adjective
  • un顎叢钩俾烦侔辈僽路迟颈惫别路濒测 adverb
  • un顎叢钩俾烦侔辈僽路迟颈惫别路苍别蝉蝉 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of attributive1

First recorded in 1600鈥10
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Example Sentences

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I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.

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Apart from the attributive tag, the sonnet's sestet, all in the imperative case, is spoken by Liberty herself.

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Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.

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In fact, the distinction between noun and adjective is inapplicable to English grammar, and should be replaced by a distinction between objective and attributive words.

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"The will dotes that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects."

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