[syn: indicative, declarative]
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]
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]
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