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attributive adjectives

attributive adjectives is the plural of attributive adjective.

Meaning of attributive adjective

Noun

attributive adjective (plural attributive adjectives)

  1. An adjective that modifies the head of the noun phrase in which it occurs; an adjective that precedes the word or phrase it modifies.
    • The word “red” in “the red balloon” is an attributive adjective.

Questions about attributive adjectives

What is attributive adjectives the plural of?
Attributive adjectives is the plural of attributive adjective.

Words near attributive adjectives in the dictionary

  1. attributionist
  2. attributionists
  3. attributions
  4. attributive
  5. attributive adjective
  6. attributive adjectives
  7. attributive clause
  8. attributive clauses
  9. attributive noun
  10. attributive nouns
  11. attributive verb

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