declarative

3 definitions found

declarative - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

declarative - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  declarative
      adj 1: relating to the use of or having the nature of a
             declaration [syn: declarative, declaratory,
             asserting(a)] [ant: interrogative, interrogatory]
      2: relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in
         declarative statements; "indicative mood" [syn: indicative,
         declarative]
      n 1: a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or
           state as an objective fact [syn: indicative mood,
           indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood
           , fact mood]

declarative - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

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