Determinative meaning

dĭ-tûrmə-nātĭv, -nə-
Able or serving to determine.

A determinative factor; influences that are determinative of future behavior.

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A determining factor.
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Determining or serving to determine.
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A thing or factor that determines.
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(linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
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(grammar) A word that typically functions as a determiner in a noun phrase; many also have other functions.
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Determining (deciding) something.
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Origin of determinative

  • From Middle French déterminatif.

    From Wiktionary

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.

  • In other words, the Church has allowed the story of American politics to become more determinative than the gospel.

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