statemental
statemental adjective: pertaining to a statement or to statements.
Adjective
statemental (comparative more statemental, superlative most statemental)
- Pertaining to a statement or to statements.
- One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take it that we somehow know that the primary or primitive use of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative, in the philosophers' preferred sense of simply uttering something...1962, J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words (OUP paperback edition, page 72)
Forms of statemental
| comparative | more statemental |
|---|---|
| superlative | most statemental |
Origin of statemental
From statement + -al.
Questions about statemental
- What does statemental mean?
- Statemental means pertaining to a statement or to statements.
- What part of speech is statemental?
- Statemental is an adjective.
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