DECLARATIVE
Dictionary entry overview: What does declarative mean?
• DECLARATIVE (noun)
The noun DECLARATIVE has 1 sense:
1. a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
Familiarity information: DECLARATIVE used as a noun is very rare.
• DECLARATIVE (adjective)
The adjective DECLARATIVE has 2 senses:
1. relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
2. relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple declarative statements
Familiarity information: DECLARATIVE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DECLARATIVE (noun)
Meaning:
A mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
common mood; indicative mood; indicative; fact mood; declarative mood; declarative
Hypernyms ("declarative" is a kind of...):
modality; mode; mood (verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker)
• DECLARATIVE (adjective)
Meaning:
Relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration
Synonyms:
asserting; declarative; declaratory
Antonym:
interrogative (relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation)
Meaning:
Relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple declarative statements
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
indicative; declarative
Context example:
indicative mood
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics or morphology))
Pertainym:
declarative mood (a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact)
