Declarative

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
    
from The 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]
    
from 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

    

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