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predicatively

adv
/ˈpɹɛ.dɪ.kə.tɪv.li/UK

Etymology

From predicative + -ly.

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

Definitions

  1. As a predicate

    As a predicate; giving information about the subject of a sentence.

    • The Dutch adjective ‘af’ can only be used predicatively.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for predicatively. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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