Declarative

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "declarative":
     absolute, affirmative, affirmatory, annunciatory, assertative,
     assertional, assertive, decided, declaratory, emphatic,
     enunciative, heraldic, positive, predicational, predicative,
     proclamatory, promulgatory, publicational