Declarative \De*clar"a*tive\, a. [L. declarativus, fr.
declarare: cf. F. d['e]claratif.]
Making declaration, proclamation, or publication;
explanatory; assertive; declaratory. "Declarative laws."
--Baker.
[1913 Webster]
The "vox populi," so declarative on the same side.
--Swift.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
declarative
adj 1: relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
[syn: declaratory, asserting(a)] [ant: interrogative,
interrogative]
2: relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple
declarative statements; "indicative mood" [syn: indicative]
n : a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or
state as an objective fact [syn: indicative mood, indicative,
declarative mood, common mood, fact mood]
WordNet (r) 2.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "declarative":
absolute, affirmative, affirmatory, annunciatory, assertative,
assertional, assertive, decided, declaratory, emphatic,
enunciative, heraldic, positive, predicational, predicative,
proclamatory, promulgatory, publicational
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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