attributive adjective
English
Noun
attributive adjective (plural attributive adjectives)Category:English lemmas#ATTRIBUTIVEADJECTIVECategory:English nouns#ATTRIBUTIVEADJECTIVECategory:English countable nouns#ATTRIBUTIVEADJECTIVECategory:English multiword terms#ATTRIBUTIVEADJECTIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ATTRIBUTIVEADJECTIVECategory:Pages with entries#ATTRIBUTIVE%20ADJECTIVECategory:Pages with 1 entry#ATTRIBUTIVE%20ADJECTIVE
- (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#ATTRIBUTIVEADJECTIVE) An adjective that modifies the head of the noun phrase in which it occurs; an adjective that precedes the word or phrase it modifies.
- The word “red” in “the red balloon” is an attributive adjective.Category:English terms with usage examples#ATTRIBUTIVEADJECTIVE
- In the phrase “attributive adjective”, “attributive” is the attributive adjective.Category:English terms with usage examples#ATTRIBUTIVEADJECTIVE
Usage notes
- As opposed to predicative adjectives, attributive adjectives are part of the noun phrase that they modify.
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Translations
adjective that precedes the word or phrase it modifies
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