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specificatory

specificatory adjective: serving to specify something.

Adjective

specificatory (not comparable)

  1. Serving to specify something.
    • A specificatory theory of natural language aims at specifying in a precise and systematic way all the meanings in a particular language.1993, Communication & Cognition, volume 26, page 89

Questions about specificatory

What does specificatory mean?
Specificatory means serving to specify something.
What part of speech is specificatory?
Specificatory is an adjective.

Words near specificatory in the dictionary

  1. specification
  2. specificational
  3. specifications
  4. specificative
  5. specificatively
  6. specificatory
  7. specificities
  8. specificity
  9. specificize
  10. specificized
  11. specificizes

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