determinative
The English word “determinative” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
- A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
adjective
Etymology
From Middle French déterminatif. Equivalent to determine + -ative.
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More English words
- determinated
- determinately
- determinateness
- determination
- determinatively
- determinativeness
- determinativity
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