PREDICATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predicative mean? 

• PREDICATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective PREDICATIVE has 1 sense:

1. of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence

  Familiarity information: PREDICATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDICATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence

Context example:

'red' is a predicative adjective in 'the apple is red'

Domain category:

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

Antonym:

attributive (of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify)

Derivation:

predicate (make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition)