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DECLARATIVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

asserting; declarative; declaratory

Classified under:

Adjectives

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

Example:

indicative mood

Synonyms:

declarative; indicative

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

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)

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