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determinative
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun determinative has 2 senses
- determinative(n = noun.communication) determiner - one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases; Array is a kind of closed-class word, function word
- determinative(n = noun.cognition) causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor - a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life" is a kind of cognitive factor
has particulars: article
has particulars: clincher, decisive factor, influence
Derived form adjective determinative1
Adjective determinative has 1 sense
- determinative(s = adj.all) deciding, determinant, determining - having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle" Derived form noun determinative2
OXFORD DICTIONARY
determinative, adj. & n.
--adj. serving to define, qualify, or direct.
--n. a determinative thing or circumstance.
--adj. serving to define, qualify, or direct.
--n. a determinative thing or circumstance.
Derivative
determinatively adv.
Etymology
F d{eacute}terminatif -ive (as DETERMINE)
THESAURUS
determinative
absolute, adducible, admissible, antecedents, arrowhead, article, assuring, attestative, attestive, authentic, authoritative, base, based on, basis, behind the scenes, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, call, caudal, causal, causation, causative, cause, cause and effect, certain, character, circumstantial, coastal, conclusive, constitutive, convictional, convincing, cumulative, cuneiform, damning, decisive, definite article, definitive, demotic character, determinant, determiner, determining, documentary, documented, effectual, element, endmost, etiological, etiology, eventual, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, extreme, eye-witness, factor, factual, farthest, final, firsthand, formative, founded on, fringing, frontier, grammalogue, ground, grounded on, grounds, hearsay, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, ideogram, ideograph, implicit, impressive, incontrovertible, indefinite article, indicative, indisputable, institutive, irrefutable, irresistible, kana, katakana, last, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, littoral, logogram, logograph, marginal, material, noun determiner, nuncupative, occasion, occasional, ogham, originative, overwhelming, persuasive, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictograph, pivotal, polar, presumptive, principle, probative, radical, reliable, rimming, rune, satisfactory, satisfying, shorthand, significant, skirting, stimulus, suggestive, sure, symptomatic, tail, telling, terminal, terminating, terminative, threshold, ultimate, valid, wedge, weighty, word letter
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