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attributive

/uh-trib-yuh-tiv/US // əˈtrɪb yə tɪv //UK // (əˈtrɪbjʊtɪv) //

归属,归因于,归属感,归属地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or having the character of attribution or an attribute.
    • : 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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Grammar. an attributive word, especially an adjective.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • In this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: see note, l. 2.

  • Rnams follows its noun as would any other attributive word—“man plural” (whether two or a million) like “man white.”

  • Adjective clauses (relative, attributive) always follow, and most often directly, the noun they modify.

  • An Attributive is a word that connotes an attribute or property, as hot, valorous, and is always grammatically an adjective.

  • In the substantive verb there are two classes, of which only one is also common to attributive verbs.