Determinative Definition

dĭ-tûrmə-nātĭv, -nə-
adjective
Determining or serving to determine.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
A thing or factor that determines.
Webster's New World

(linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

Wiktionary

(grammar) A word that typically functions as a determiner in a noun phrase; many also have other functions.

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Other Word Forms of Determinative

Noun

Singular:
determinative
Plural:
determinatives

Origin of Determinative

  • From Middle French déterminatif.

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Determinative Sentence Examples

  • Configuration is only one out of many conditions modifying distributions, and its effects on England as a whole appear to be suggestive rather than determinative.

  • The adjudicator's decision, although not finally determinative, may give rise to an immediate payment obligation.

  • Its frequent explanation, however, of incompatible symbols by the doctrines of phonetic variation and interchange, or by alternative values of the same symbol used as ideograph, determinative or phonetic complement, and the occasional use of circular argument in the process of " verification," do not inspire confidence in other than its broader results.

  • In nuisance, if negligence were not involved, compliance with terms of a permit would be relevant but not determinative.

  • I do not find that principle determinative of the present issue.

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Words Starting With

DDEDET

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

Unscrambles

determinative

Words Starting With D and Ending With E

Starts With D & Ends With EStarts With DE & Ends With EStarts With D & Ends With VE

Word Length

13 Letter Words13 Letter Words Starting With D13 Letter Words Ending With E