Contextualizebeta

predicative

adj
/ˈpɹɛ.dɪ.kə.tɪv/UK

Etymology

From predicate + -ive.

  1. derived from praedicātum — “thing said of a subject, predicate”
  2. derived from predicat
  3. inherited from predicat
  4. suffixed as predicative — “predicate + ive”

Definitions

  1. Modifying a noun from within a predicate.

    • in predicative position

  2. An element of the predicate of a sentence which complements the subject or object by…

    An element of the predicate of a sentence which complements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.

  3. In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of…

    In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being.

    • A predicative in Russian is an uninflected word that regularly constitutes a complete utterance when standing alone, i.e., when preceded and followed by silence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at predicative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01predicative02speech03style04thin05narrow06depth07drawer08attributive

A definitional loop anchored at predicative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at predicative

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA