Usually means: Modifier directly linked to noun.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. attributive: Merriam-Webster
  2. attributive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. attributive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. attributive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. attributive: Vocabulary.com
  6. attributive: Wordnik
  7. attributive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. attributive: Wiktionary
  9. attributive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. attributive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. attributive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Attributive, attributive: Dictionary.com
  13. attributive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Attributive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Attributive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. attributive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. attributive: Rhymezone
  18. Attributive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. attributive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. attributive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. attributive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. attributive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. attributive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. attributive: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attributive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. attributive: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (grammar, of a word or phrase) Modifying another word, typically a noun, while in the same phrase.
adjective:  Attributing; characterized by attributing; effecting attribution.
noun:  (grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.

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