(grammar) (of an adjective) coming after a verb such as be, become, get, seem, look. Many adjectives, for example old can be either predicative as in The man is very old, or ATTRIBUTIVE as in an old man. Some, like asleep, can only be predicative.
predicatively adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Where does this definition of predicative come from?
This entry for predicative is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is predicative a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, predicative is tagged as adjective.
Does predicative appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — predicative appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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