DECLARATIVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does declarative mean? 

• DECLARATIVE (noun)
  The noun DECLARATIVE has 1 sense:

1. a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

  Familiarity information: DECLARATIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• DECLARATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective DECLARATIVE has 2 senses:

1. relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration

2. relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements

  Familiarity information: DECLARATIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECLARATIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

common mood; declarative; declarative mood; fact mood; indicative; indicative mood

Hypernyms ("declarative" is a kind of...):

modality; mode; mood (verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker)

Derivation:

declarative (relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements)

• DECLARATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration

Synonyms:

asserting; declarative; declaratory

Antonym:

interrogative (relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation)

Derivation:

declare (state firmly)

declare (declare to be)

declare (announce publicly or officially)

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

declarative; indicative

Context example:

indicative mood

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Pertainym:

declarative mood (a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact)

Derivation:

declarative (a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact)

 Context examples 

An indication of whether an application uses declarative security.

(Declarative Flag, NCI Thesaurus)